Sett vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Sett
based on 2,610 Sett vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Sett vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Sett vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Sett
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.
Sett vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Sett in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize some valuable Sett vs. Bard matchup stats that may help you grasp the differences between the two. Sett’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s ratio of NaN, showing that Sett may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Bard. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Sett usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his foe does. Commonly, he receives more damage than Bard. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is unable to flee from further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Sett and Bard
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Who is Better, Sett or Bard?
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both champs have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Sett usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 47.3% win rate. As a result, Sett makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Sett does have a lower win rate than Bard, when they face off with one another, Sett also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less challenging character to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Sett into Bard.
Moreover, Sett also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Sett 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 team fights.
Sett is a bad counter for Bard. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Sett against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Sett to counter Bard during both the early game 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 tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Sett most often gets much more CS relative to Bard. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically have to have many items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Sett versus Bard build include Sterak's Gage, Black Cleaver, and Titanic Hydra. When Sett used at least these three items in his build, he did a lot better versus Bard than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Sett had an average winrate of 47.3% when countering Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the best chance of annihilating Bard as Sett, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Sett vs Bard LoL games, this sequence of runes yielded the best win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.3% win rate overall.
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