Delaying the activation of Undying Rage is a very effective way to make an enemy champion over-commit to trying to kill you.
If the enemy is stacking Armor, try building items like Last Whisper or Youmuu's Ghostblade.
Bloodlust is an excellent way to heal Tryndamere. Try not to let it fade off before you activate it.
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.
The stats provided here show some critical Tryndamere against Bard counter stats that can help us grasp the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. As an example, Tryndamere’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Tryndamere may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Bard. This observation is in large part a result of the difference in kills.
Tryndamere typically has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he receives more damage than Bard. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also hint that the champion with higher health has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Tryndamere usually loses when trying to fight Bard, with a 46.8% win rate. Therefore, Tryndamere makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Tryndamere does have a lower winrate compared to Bard, when on opposite teams, Tryndamere also has a much lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex character to pick up and master. You should be very concerned when picking Tryndamere into Bard.
Moreover, Tryndamere has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Tryndamere vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Tryndamere is a bad counter for Bard. Focus your gameplay on maximizing your CS and destroying objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Tryndamere against Bard.
To learn all of the intricacies of Tryndamere in order to counter Bard during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and stats shown above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Tryndamere most often accumulates much more CS as Bard. Champs who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions 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, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to exceed the values shown on this page to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Tryndamere versus Bard build include Infinity Edge, Blade of The Ruined King, and Kraken Slayer. When Tryndamere used at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better countering Bard than with most other common builds. In fact, Tryndamere had an average win rate of 46.8% battling Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest likelihood of vanquishing Bard as Tryndamere, Tryndamere players should equip the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Tryndamere vs Bard counterpicks, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 46.8% winrate overall.
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