Kai'Sa vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Kai'Sa
based on 4,604 Kai'Sa vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kai'Sa vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Kai'Sa vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Kai'Sa
Tips for Playing as Kai'Sa against Bard
Make sure to buy items that will evolve at least 1 or 2 of your spells.
Work with your teammates to set up your Ultimate and optimize damage with your passive.
Try to catch enemy carries alone to burst them with Icathian Rain.
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.
Kai'Sa vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Kai'Sa in LoL
The stats shown here underscore some vital Kai'Sa vs. Bard counter statistics that may help you interpret the distinctions between this set of champions. For instance, Kai'Sa’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Kai'Sa may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Bard. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Kai'Sa often has a much larger longest kill spree than her matchup does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This often reflects differing health capacities, but it can also illustrate that the champion with more health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kai'Sa and Bard
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Who is Better, Kai'Sa or Bard?
Both League champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Kai'Sa usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 43.9% win rate. As a result, Kai'Sa makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Kai'Sa does have a much lower winrate than Bard, when facing one another, Kai'Sa also has a lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult champ to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Kai'Sa into Bard.
Moreover, Kai'Sa has almost no amount of CC and other utility, 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 isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Kai'Sa vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Kai'Sa is a trash counter for Bard. Make sure you focus your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Kai'Sa against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Kai'Sa to counter Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kai'Sa usually racks up much more CS as Bard. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to use in your Kai'Sa versus Bard build include Statikk Shiv, Nashor's Tooth, and Guinsoo's Rageblade. When Kai'Sa bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better versus Bard than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Kai'Sa boasted an average winrate of 43.9% when countering Bard with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Bard as Kai'Sa, you should take the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for Kai'Sa vs Bard counters, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 43.9% win rate overall.
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