Bard vs Hecarim
How to Beat Hecarim as Bard
based on 2,837 Bard vs Hecarim matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Hecarim Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Hecarim Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Hecarim as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Hecarim
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 Hecarim
Hecarim's ultimate causes opponents to flee in terror. Spread out to reduce his power in fights.
Hecarim gains life from nearby enemies with Spirit of Dread but lacks durability, use burst damage.
Bard vs Hecarim Counter Stats
How to Counter Hecarim with Bard in LoL
The stat comparisons provided here emphasize some valuable Bard versus Hecarim counter stats that can help you realize the differences and similarities between this pair of champions. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Hecarim’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Hecarim. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in assists.
Bard normally has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his opponent does. On average, he takes less damage than Hecarim. This is usually reflective of different amounts of tankyness, yet it can also show that the champion with higher health has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Hecarim
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Who is Better, Bard or Hecarim?
Both League champions are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when playing against Hecarim, with a 55.3% win rate. Thus, Bard makes a fantastic counter for Hecarim.
While Bard does have a much higher win rate than Hecarim, when they face off with one another, Bard also has a much greater learning curve that makes him a more complex champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Hecarimas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard also has a good amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Hecarim. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Hecarim matchups, Bard is the better champion 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 Hecarim. You will do well by focussing your strategy on maximizing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Hecarim.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard to counter Hecarim during both the lane 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 stats displayed above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often picks up a similar amount of CS relative to Hecarim. Champs who typically don't acquire many minion kills often don't need much CS to be effective, such as supports. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported on this page to do well.
The ideal items to prioritize in your Bard versus Hecarim build consist of Trailblazer, Locket of the Iron Solari, and Bloodsong. When Bard bought at least these three pieces in his build, he performed a lot better vs. Hecarim than with most other typical builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 55.3% when playing against Hecarim with this counter build.
To have the best likelihood of annihilating Hecarim as Bard, Bard players should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets we have analyed for Bard vs Hecarim LoL games, this combination of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 55.3% winrate overall.
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