Ryze vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Ryze
based on 1,013 Ryze vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Ryze vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Ryze vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Ryze
Tips for Playing as Ryze against Bard
Spell Flux's short cooldown allows it to be used to spread Flux to many enemies.
Use Overload's passive to optimize for maximum damage or maximum speed.
Ryze can move and cast other spells while Realm Warp is charging without cancelling the portal.
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.
Ryze vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Ryze in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some critical Ryze against Bard counter statistics that may help you distinguish the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Ryze’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s ratio of NaN, showing that Ryze may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Bard..
Ryze often has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Bard. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Ryze and Bard
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Who is Better, Ryze or Bard?
Both League champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Ryze usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 47.4% win rate. Therefore, Ryze makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Ryze does have a lower win rate than Bard, when facing one another, Ryze also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging champion to learn and master. You may get destroyed when picking Ryze into Bardas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Ryze has some 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 lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Ryze 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 team members during teamfights.
Ryze is a garbage counter to Bard. Focus your tactics on maximizing your gold income and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Ryze against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Ryze in order to counter Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented here, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Ryze usually picks up much more CS as Bard. Champions who typically don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values displayed here to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Ryze versus Bard build include Seraph's Embrace, Stormsurge, and Rod of Ages. When Ryze included at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better vs. Bard than with most other common item sets. In fact, Ryze had an average win rate of 47.4% battling Bard with this build.
To have the best chance of coming out on top against Bard as Ryze, Ryze players should use the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Waterwalking, Biscuit Delivery, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Ryze vs Bard counters, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 47.4% winrate overall.
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