Lux vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Lux
based on 10,274 Lux vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Lux vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Lux vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Lux
Tips for Playing as Lux against Bard
If you have trouble landing Prismatic Barrier, remember that it returns to you after it reaches max range. Try positioning yourself to hit your allies with its return trip.
Lux has great zone control abilities. Try to set up Lucent Singularity to prevent an enemy's advance or escape.
Lucent Singularity is a great scouting tool. Try throwing it into brush before walking into it to check for ambushes.
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.
Lux vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Lux in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several strategic Lux vs. Bard matchup statistics that can help us understand the differences between the two. As an example, Lux’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lux may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Bard..
Lux usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her foe does. Commonly, she receives less damage than Bard. This typically indicates differing health capacities, but it can also indicate that the champion with more HP has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Lux and Bard
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Who is Better, Lux or Bard?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Lux usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 46.3% win rate. Thus, Lux makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Lux does have a lower winrate than Bard, when facing one another, Lux also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less complex character to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Lux into Bard.
Additionally, Lux also has a good 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 isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Lux vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Lux is a garbage counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your tactics on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Lux against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Lux to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and stats presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lux typically racks up more CS as Bard. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Lux versus Bard build include Cryptbloom, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Lux bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did a lot better vs. Bard than with most other common builds. In fact, Lux had an average win rate of 46.3% battling Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Bard as Lux, you should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Gathering Storm, Cheap Shot, and Ultimate Hunter runes from the Sorcery and Domination rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Lux vs Bard matchups, this mix of runes yielded the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 46.3% winrate overall.
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