Xerath vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Xerath
based on 4,300 Xerath vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Xerath vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Xerath vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Xerath
Tips for Playing as Xerath against Bard
If you stun an enemy with Shocking Orb, follow up with a guaranteed center hit on Eye of Destruction.
It's easier to land Arcanopulse on an enemy when they're moving toward or away from you, rather than side to side.
Eye of Destruction will make landing Arcanopulse easier as the target will be slowed.
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.
Xerath vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Xerath in LoL
The stats provided here underscore some vital Xerath vs. Bard counter statistics that can help you appreciate the distinctions between these two champs. Xerath’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Xerath may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Bard..
Xerath normally has a slightly larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he takes less damage than Bard. This typically indicates differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Xerath and Bard
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Who is Better, Xerath or Bard?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Xerath usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 47.1% win rate. As a result, Xerath makes a poor counter for Bard.
While Xerath does have a lower win rate compared to Bard, when facing one another, Xerath also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less complex champ to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Xerath into Bardas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Xerath also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Xerath vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Xerath is a trash counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your strategy on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Xerath against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Xerath to counter Bard during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Xerath usually accumulates much more CS compared to Bard. Champions who typically don't take many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, often have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Xerath versus Bard build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Zaz'Zak's Realmspike, and Luden's Companion. When Xerath included at least these three pieces in his build, he performed significantly better vs. Bard than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Xerath boasted an average win rate of 47.1% when playing against Bard with this build.
To have the highest chance of vanquishing Bard as Xerath, Xerath players should use the Arcane Comet, Manaflow Band, Transcendence, Scorch, Coup de Grace, and Presence of Mind runes from the Sorcery and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds players picked for Xerath vs Bard battles, this mixture of runes yielded the highest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.1% win rate overall.
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