Zed vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Zed
based on 4,035 Zed vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zed vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Zed vs Bard Counter Build
Items
Starter Items
Early Items
Core Zed Items
Optional Items
Summoner Spells
Skill Order
Runes
Guide to Countering Bard as Zed
Tips for Playing as Zed against Bard
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
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.
Zed vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Zed in LoL
The stats shown here emphasize several critical Zed versus Bard matchup statistics that may help us appreciate the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Zed’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Bard’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zed may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Bard. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Zed normally has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. Commonly, he takes a similar amount of damage to Bard. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also indicate that the champ with more health has less agility and thus is not able to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Zed and Bard
Damage Types Compared
Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Zed or Bard?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Zed usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 47.6% win rate. Thus, Zed makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Zed does have a lower win rate compared to Bard, when facing one another, Zed also has a lower learning curve that makes him a less complex character to learn. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zed into Bardas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Zed has almost no amount of utility and CC, 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 one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Zed 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 allies during team fights.
Zed is a trash counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your actions on keeping up your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Zed against Bard.
Other Champion Matchups Against Zed
Additional Information for Zed Players
How We Calculated Our Zed vs Bard Build and Stats
Other Useful Resources
Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zed in order to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zed most often picks up much more CS relative to Bard. Champions who on average don't take much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The most crucial items to have in your Zed versus Bard build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Zed included at least these three items in his build, he did much better countering Bard than with most other typical item sets. In fact, Zed had an average winrate of 47.6% when countering Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest probability of vanquishing Bard as Zed, you should equip the Electrocute, Taste of Blood, Eyeball Collection, Ultimate Hunter, Scorch, and Transcendence runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players chose for Zed vs Bard fights, this blending of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% win rate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Bard as Zed are given for every ranked division. If you want to scope the stats and builds to an individual division, you should use the selection menu above.