Ornn vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Ornn
based on 2,469 Ornn vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ornn vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Ornn vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Ornn
Tips for Playing as Ornn against Bard
Volcanic Rupture can be used to set up zoning areas to threaten enemies.
Learning build paths of items can help quickly select upgrades in lane.
The order of your abilties matters! Try to optimize Brittle usage.
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.
Ornn vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Ornn in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature several significant Ornn versus Bard counter statistics that may help us appreciate the differences between this set of champs. For instance, Ornn’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Ornn may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Bard..
Ornn normally has a similar longest kill spree as his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Bard. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less mobility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Ornn and Bard
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Who is Better, Ornn or Bard?
Both League champs are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Ornn usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 48.4% win rate. Therefore, Ornn makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Ornn does have a lower winrate than Bard, when facing one another, Ornn also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging champion to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Ornn into Bard.
Furthermore, Ornn has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ornn 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.
Ornn is a somewhat poor counter to Bard. Focus your strategy on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Ornn against Bard.
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How We Calculated Our Ornn vs Bard Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Ornn in order to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips displayed here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ornn typically gets much more CS relative to Bard. Champions who on average don't take many minion kills typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the values shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Ornn versus Bard build include Kaenic Rookern, Hollow Radiance, and The Unspoken Parasite. When Ornn incorporated at least these three items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting Bard than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Ornn had an average win rate of 48.4% when countering Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of vanquishing Bard as Ornn, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Demolish, Bone Plating, Overgrowth, Magical Footwear, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Ornn vs Bard face-offs, this mixture of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes gave a 48.4% winrate overall.
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