Xayah vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Xayah
based on 1,585 Xayah vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xayah vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Xayah vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Xayah
Tips for Playing as Xayah against Bard
Xayah's attacks and abilities leave Feathers on the ground that she can later recall for massive area damage and control.
Xayah can use Featherstorm to dodge almost any ability while also creating a ton of Feathers. Try to utilize the offensive and defensive aspects of this ability.
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.
Xayah vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Xayah in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some important Xayah vs. Bard counter statistics that can help us explain the differences between the two. For instance, Xayah’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Xayah may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Bard. This observation is largely a result of the difference in kills.
Xayah typically has a slightly larger longest kill spree than her opponent does. On average, she receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the champion with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Xayah and Bard
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Who is Better, Xayah or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xayah usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 46.2% win rate. As a result, Xayah makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Xayah does have a lower winrate than Bard, when on opposite teams, Xayah also has a much lower learning curve that makes her a less complex character to learn. You should be very concerned when picking Xayah into Bard.
Additionally, Xayah has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Xayah 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Xayah is a garbage counter for Bard. You will do well by focussing your gameplay on increasing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Xayah against Bard.
Other Champion Matchups Against Xayah
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Xayah to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions displayed here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xayah usually racks up 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 sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The best items to use in your Xayah versus Bard build include Phantom Dancer, Kraken Slayer, and Navori Quickblades. When Xayah incorporated at least these three pieces in her build, she performed a lot better when fighting Bard than with most other commonly used builds. In fact, Xayah had an average win rate of 46.2% when countering Bard with this build.
To have the best chance of annihilating Bard as Xayah, you should equip the Lethal Tempo, Presence of Mind, Legend: Bloodline, Coup de Grace, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune combinations that we analyzed for Xayah vs Bard counter picks, this blending of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 46.2% win rate overall.
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