Illaoi vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Illaoi
based on 1,756 Illaoi vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Illaoi vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Illaoi vs Bard Counter Build
Items
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Early Items
Core Illaoi Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
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Guide to Countering Bard as Illaoi
Tips for Playing as Illaoi against Bard
Vessel
Tentacles are an immense source of power. Don't fight without them.
Spirits inherit their target's current health. If making a
is your goal, try whittling your opponent's health down a bit first to make killing the spirit easier.
Leap of Faith is best used to follow-up a strong engage or when being engaged upon. Be careful about being the first one into a fight.
Advice to Win Against Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Illaoi vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Illaoi in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several important Illaoi against Bard counter statistics that may help you realize the distinctions between the pair. Illaoi’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Illaoi may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Bard. This observation is largely a result of the differences in deaths.
Illaoi usually has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. Typically, she receives more damage than Bard. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the champ with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Illaoi and Bard
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Who is Better, Illaoi or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Illaoi usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Illaoi makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Illaoi does have a lower win rate compared to Bard, when they face off with one another, Illaoi also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Illaoi into Bard.
Furthermore, Illaoi also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Illaoi vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Illaoi is a somewhat poor counter for Bard. Focus your strategy on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Illaoi against Bard.
Other Champion Matchups Against Illaoi
Additional Information for Illaoi Players
How We Calculated Our Illaoi vs Bard Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Illaoi in order to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Illaoi usually picks up much more CS compared to Bard. Champs who typically don't get many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Illaoi versus Bard build include Sterak's Gage, Spear of Shojin, and Sundered Sky. When Illaoi bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better versus Bard than with many other common builds. In fact, Illaoi boasted an average winrate of 48.7% when countering Bard with this build.
To have the greatest chance of annihilating Bard as Illaoi, Illaoi players should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Last Stand, and Presence of Mind runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Illaoi vs Bard LoL games, this sequence of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.7% winrate overall.
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