Bard vs Kled
How to Beat Kled as Bard
based on 1,448 Bard vs Kled matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Kled Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Kled Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kled as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Kled
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 Kled
Watch Kled's courage bar when he's off his mount - when it reaches 100%, he will remount and regain a significant amount of health.
Kled is much more threatening when he has Violent Tendencies ready.
Kled generates courage by damaging enemies with his Pocket Pistol and basic attacks, killing minions, and attacking structures or epic monsters.
Bard vs Kled Counter Stats
How to Counter Kled with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here show several significant Bard versus Kled matchup statistics that can help us appreciate the differences between the pair. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Kled’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Kled. This observation is in large part a result of the differences in assists.
Bard typically has a significantly smaller longest kill spree than his matchup does. Typically, he receives less damage than Kled. This typically indicates different amounts of tankyness, but it can also imply that the one champion has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Kled
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Who is Better, Bard or Kled?
Both League champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when trying to fight Kled, with a 51.3% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a good counter for Kled.
While Bard does have a higher winrate than Kled, when facing one another, Bard also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming champ to learn. You should be careful when picking Bard into Kledas his relative depth means that you may not be able to unleash his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Furthermore, Bard has a good amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kled. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Bard vs Kled matchups, Bard is the better champion with a higher win rate, more champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during teamfights.
Bard is a decent counter for Kled. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Bard against Kled.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to truly master Bard in order to counter Kled during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and tips shown above, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard often gets a lot less CS as Kled. Champions who typically don't take much CS typically 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, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values shown on this page to do well.
The best items to prioritize in your Bard versus Kled build include Kaenic Rookern, Frozen Heart, and Imperial Mandate. When Bard incorporated at least these three pieces in his build, he did much better against Kled than with many other typical item sets. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 51.3% when playing against Kled with this counter build.
To have the greatest likelihood of crushing Kled as Bard, you should equip the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Last Stand, Conditioning, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the runes that we analyzed for Bard vs Kled counterpicks, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 51.3% win rate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Kled as Bard are shown for all skill levels combined. To scope the statistics and builds to an individual player tier, you may use the selection menu earlier in the counter matchup guide.