Morgana vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Morgana
based on 4,774 Morgana vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Morgana vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Morgana vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Morgana
Tips for Playing as Morgana against Bard
Tormented Shadow is an excellent farming tool if you're by yourself in a lane.
Shrewd use of Black Shield can determine the outcome of team fights.
Items that provide survivability allow Morgana to become extremely difficult to kill in conjunction with Black Shield and Soul Shackles.
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.
Morgana vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Morgana in LoL
The stats shown on this page show some significant Morgana vs. Bard counter stats that can help us distinguish the differences and similarities between these two champs. As an example, Morgana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Morgana may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Bard..
Morgana often has a similar longest killing spree as her enemy does. Typically, she receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the champ with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Morgana and Bard
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Who is Better, Morgana or Bard?
Both League champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Morgana usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 48.7% win rate. Therefore, Morgana makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Morgana does have a lower winrate than Bard, when they face off with one another, Morgana also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes her a less difficult character to develop with. You should be careful when picking Morgana into Bard.
Additionally, Morgana has a great amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Morgana vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Morgana is a somewhat poor counter for Bard. Focus your strategy on keeping up your gold income and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Morgana against Bard.
Other Champion Matchups Against Morgana
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Morgana in order to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Morgana typically gets more CS compared to Bard. Champs who on average don't earn much CS usualy don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Morgana versus Bard build include Zhonya's Hourglass, Liandry's Torment, and Luden's Companion. When Morgana used at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Bard than with many other common counter builds. In fact, Morgana had an average win rate of 48.7% when countering Bard with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of annihilating Bard as Morgana, you should take the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Triple Tonic, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Morgana vs Bard counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 48.7% winrate overall.
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