Zeri vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Zeri
based on 1,180 Zeri vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Zeri vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Zeri vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Zeri
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.
Zeri vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Zeri in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here underscore several valuable Zeri vs. Bard counter stats that may help you figure out the differences and similarities between the two. As an example, Zeri’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s ratio of NaN, showing that Zeri may be more central to their team's team fighting potential than Bard. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Zeri usually has a much larger longest kill spree than their opponent does. Commonly, they receives a similar amount of damage to Bard. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also indicate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Zeri and Bard
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Who is Better, Zeri or Bard?
Both LoL champs are great champions. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Zeri usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 43.3% win rate. Thus, Zeri makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Zeri does have a much lower win rate compared to Bard, when on opposite teams, Zeri also has a lower level of difficulty that makes them a less complex champ to develop with. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Zeri into Bard.
Moreover, Zeri has some amount of utility and CC, 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 isn't one best champion in League of Legends, in Zeri 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 allied champions during teamfights.
Zeri is a garbage counter to Bard. Focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Zeri against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Zeri in order to counter Bard during both the laning 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 pay attention to the build and stats presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Zeri often gets much more CS relative to Bard. Champs who typically don't take much CS usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Zeri versus Bard build consist of Lord Dominik's Regards, Runaan's Hurricane, and Navori Quickblades. When Zeri used at least these three pieces in their build, they did a lot better vs Bard than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Zeri had an average win rate of 43.3% when playing against Bard with this build.
To have the best chance of defeating Bard as Zeri, Zeri players should use the Lethal Tempo, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes players used for Zeri vs Bard counters, this combo of runes yielded the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.3% winrate overall.
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