Trundle vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Trundle
based on 6,068 Trundle vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Trundle vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Trundle vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Trundle
Tips for Playing as Trundle against Bard
Use Subjugate to soften a powerful enemy tank or to create a target for your team to focus fire.
Trundle excels at fighting within his Frozen Domain. Try to draw enemies onto it.
Chomp is good for lowering the physical damage of enemies; try to focus it on enemy physical damage dealers.
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.
Trundle vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Trundle in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several influential Trundle versus Bard matchup statistics that can help you distinguish the differences and similarities between this set of champions. For instance, Trundle’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Trundle may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Bard..
Trundle normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his matchup does. On average, he receives more damage than Bard. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Trundle and Bard
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Who is Better, Trundle or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Trundle usually fairs equally well when facing off against Bard, with a 50.3% win rate. As a result, Trundle makes an ok counter for Bard.
While Trundle does have a higher winrate compared to Bard, when facing one another, Trundle also has a much lower learning curve that makes him a less challenging character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Trundle into Bard.
Moreover, Trundle has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Trundle vs Bard matchups, Trundle is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Trundle is a decent counter to Bard. Focus your actions on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Trundle against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Trundle to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Trundle often racks up much more CS relative to Bard. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well 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 case, try to do better than the values shown on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Trundle versus Bard build include Ravenous Hydra, Blade of The Ruined King, and Hullbreaker. When Trundle bought at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when facing Bard than with many other typical builds. In fact, Trundle boasted an average winrate of 50.3% when playing against Bard with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Bard as Trundle, Trundle players should take the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Demolish runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Trundle vs Bard LoL games, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.3% winrate overall.
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