Bard vs Rengar
How to Beat Rengar as Bard
based on 4,164 Bard vs Rengar matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Bard vs Rengar Matchup Summary
Best Bard vs Rengar Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Rengar as Bard
Tips for Playing as Bard against Rengar
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 Rengar
Rengar's passive enables him to leap out of brush, so avoid fighting him when near bushes.
Rengar puts an indicator over the nearest enemy champion when he is camouflaged during his ultimate.
Rengar gains an empowered ability when his resource bar is full. Try to confront him when it's low.
Bard vs Rengar Counter Stats
How to Counter Rengar with Bard in LoL
The stats shown here show some strategic Bard vs. Rengar matchup statistics that can help you appreciate the distinctions between the two. Bard’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Rengar’s KDA ratio of NaN, highlighting that Bard may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Rengar. This observation is largely caused by the differences in assists.
Bard typically has a significantly smaller longest killing spree than his foe does. Typically, he receives less damage than Rengar. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also show that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to kite away from further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Bard and Rengar
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Who is Better, Bard or Rengar?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Bard usually wins when taking on Rengar, with a 52.7% win rate. As a result, Bard makes a good counter to Rengar.
While Bard does have a higher win rate than Rengar, when facing one another, Bard also has a greater difficulty level that makes him a more challenging champ to pick up and master. You should be be fine when picking Bard into Rengaras 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 Rengar. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Bard vs Rengar 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 team members during late stage team fights.
Bard is a good counter to Rengar. You will do well by focussing your tactics on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Bard against Rengar.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Bard to counter Rengar during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Bard most often racks up a similar amount of CS compared to Rengar. Champions who on average don't take much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. 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 several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to do better than the numbers reported on this page to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Bard versus Rengar build include Trailblazer, Frozen Heart, and Bloodsong. When Bard included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Rengar than with most other typical counter builds. In fact, Bard had an average winrate of 52.7% when playing against Rengar with this counter build.
To have the best probability of coming out on top against Rengar as Bard, you should take the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Conditioning, and Unflinching runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Bard vs Rengar counter picks, this order of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 52.7% winrate overall.
By default, tips, statistics, and builds on how to beat Rengar as Bard are presented for all ranked divisions combined. To filter the stats and builds to a particular rank, you can use the selection menu located earlier in the counter matchup guide.