Vex vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Vex
based on 1,852 Vex vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Vex vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Vex vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Vex
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.
Vex vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Vex in LoL
The stats provided here highlight some valuable Vex against Bard counter stats that may help us interpret the differences and similarities between this pair of champs. As an example, Vex’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s ratio of NaN, showing that Vex may be more central to their team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Vex typically has a much larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. Typically, they takes a similar amount of damage to Bard. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also imply that the champion with increased health has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Vex and Bard
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Who is Better, Vex or Bard?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Vex usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 45.7% win rate. As a result, Vex makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Vex does have a much lower win rate than Bard, when they face off with one another, Vex also has a much lower learning curve that makes them a less difficult champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Vex into Bard.
Furthermore, Vex also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Vex 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 teammates during teamfights.
Vex is a terribly counter for Bard. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Vex against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Vex 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 lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions presented here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Vex usually accumulates much more CS relative to Bard. Champions who on average don't get many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to focus on in your Vex versus Bard build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Stormsurge, and Luden's Companion. When Vex used at least these three pieces in their build, they did much better when fighting Bard than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Vex had an average win rate of 45.7% battling Bard with this build.
To have the best likelihood of coming out on top against Bard as Vex, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Manaflow Band, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune sets players used for Vex vs Bard matchups, this composite of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 45.7% win rate overall.
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