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 stat comparisons shown here highlight several critical Yone against Bard counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences and similarities between the two. For instance, Yone’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Yone may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Bard. This observation is largely a result of the differences in killsdeaths.
Yone often has a much larger longest kill spree than his opponent does. On average, he receives more damage than Bard. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Yone usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 47.2% win rate. Thus, Yone makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Yone does have a lower win rate than Bard, when on opposite teams, Yone also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champion to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Yone into Bardas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Yone has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Yone vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during team fights.
Yone is a trash counter to Bard. Focus your tactics on increasing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Yone against Bard.
If you would like to truly master Yone in order to counter Bard during both the early game 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 suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Yone most often gets much more CS as Bard. Champions who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. They are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Yone versus Bard build consist of Guardian Angel, Infinity Edge, and Blade of The Ruined King. When Yone used at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better vs Bard than with most other common builds. In fact, Yone boasted an average winrate of 47.2% when playing against Bard with this build.
To have the highest probability of crushing Bard as Yone, you should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Second Wind, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Yone vs Bard fights, this blending of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 47.2% winrate overall.
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