Tristana vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Tristana
based on 3,160 Tristana vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Tristana vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Tristana vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Tristana
Tips for Playing as Tristana against Bard
Use Rapid Fire to help stack up your Explosive Charge on enemy champions.
Her massive gun allows Tristana to fire on targets at a great distance. Utilize this to prevent your enemies from ever laying a hand on you.
Use Rocket Jump after you have stacked up your Explosive Charge on an enemy to finish them off with a burst of damage.
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.
Tristana vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Tristana in LoL
The stats shown on this page clarify several important Tristana vs. Bard matchup statistics that may help you explain the differences and similarities between the two. Tristana’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s ratio of NaN, showing that Tristana may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Tristana normally has a much larger longest killing spree than her enemy does. Commonly, she receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Tristana and Bard
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Who is Better, Tristana or Bard?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Tristana usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 47.1% win rate. Therefore, Tristana makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Tristana does have a lower win rate compared to Bard, when on opposite teams, Tristana also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less difficult champion to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Tristana into Bard.
Furthermore, Tristana also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Tristana 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 teamfights.
Tristana is a terribly counter for Bard. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Tristana against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Tristana 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tristana most often racks up much more CS compared to Bard. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, 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 situation, try to exceed the numbers displayed on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Tristana versus Bard build include Infinity Edge, Bloodthirster, and Kraken Slayer. When Tristana incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better against Bard than with many other typical builds. In fact, Tristana had an average win rate of 47.1% when countering Bard with this build.
To have the greatest probability of defeating Bard as Tristana, you should use the Press the Attack, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Taste of Blood, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Tristana vs Bard battles, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 47.1% winrate overall.
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