Bard vs Ashe
How to Beat Ashe as Bard
based on 7,241 Bard vs Ashe matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Ashe Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Ashe Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Ashe as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Ashe
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Advice to Win Against Ashe
Ashe has very few defensive options, and she's a good target to gank.
Be wary of moving around the map alone if Ashe has not recently cast her Enchanted Crystal Arrow.
Bard vs Ashe Counter Stats
How to Counter Ashe with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here show several strategic Bard versus Ashe counter stats that may help you appreciate the differences and similarities between these two champions. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Ashe’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Ashe. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Ashe. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also hint that the champ with higher health has less agility and thus is unable to escape further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Bard and Ashe
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Who is Better, Bard or Ashe?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Ashe, with a 54.1% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes a great counter for Ashe.
While Bard does have a much higher winrate compared to Ashe, when on opposite teams, Bard also has a much greater difficulty level that makes him a more difficult character to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Bard into Asheas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Ashe. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Ashe matchups, Bard is the better champ with a noticably higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Bard is a great counter to Ashe. You will do well by focussing your actions on increasing your gold income and clearing objectives. If you are able to do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Ashe.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Bard to counter Ashe during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard often picks up a lot less CS relative to Ashe. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills often don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values displayed here to do well.
The top items to use in your Bard versus Ashe build include Trailblazer, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did significantly better versus Ashe than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 54.1% battling Ashe with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of defeating Ashe as Bard, Bard players should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets we have analyed for Bard vs Ashe fights, this set of runes resulted in the best win rate. Notably, these runes averaged a 54.1% winrate overall.
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