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.
Disrupt Draven with the goal of making him drop his axes. If you do, his power drops dramatically.
Launch skillshots toward the landing position of Draven's Spinning Axes.
The stat comparisons shown here highlight several significant Bard vs. Draven counter statistics that can help you grasp the differences between these two champions. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Draven’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting potential than Draven. This observation is in large part caused by the differences in assists.
Bard often has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his enemy does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Draven. This commonly reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champion with higher HP has less agility and thus is unable to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Bard usually fairs equally well when taking on Draven, with a 49.8% win rate. Therefore, Bard makes an ok counter to Draven.
While Bard does have a lower winrate compared to Draven, when facing one another, Bard also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more difficult character to learn. You should be careful when picking Bard into Dravenas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Draven. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Draven matchups, Draven is the better champion with a similar win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during team fights.
Bard is a somewhat poor counter to Draven. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Draven.
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to counter Draven during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and suggestions displayed here, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard on average accumulates a lot less CS relative to Draven. Champions who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The most crucial items to prioritize in your Bard versus Draven build include Kaenic Rookern, Bloodsong, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better when fighting Draven than with many other typical builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 49.8% when countering Draven with these items in his kit.
To have the highest chance of coming out on top against Draven as Bard, Bard players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune combinations players chose for Bard vs Draven face-offs, this blending of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.8% winrate overall.
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