Corki vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Corki
based on 1,355 Corki vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Corki vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Corki vs Bard Counter Build
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Starter Items
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Core Corki Items
Optional Items
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Guide to Countering Bard as Corki
Tips for Playing as Corki against Bard
Valkyrie can be used defensively as well, so try using it for a quick escape.
Phosphorus Bomb can be used to reveal enemy units that might be hiding in a nearby patch of brush.
Corki can continue to attack while using Gatling Gun. Maximizing Gatling Gun is key to mastering Corki.
Advice to Win Against Bard
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!
Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
Corki vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Corki in LoL
The stat comparisons shown here emphasize several valuable Corki versus Bard counter stats that can help us understand the distinctions between the two. Corki’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is more than Bard’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Corki may be more central to his team's team fighting capability than Bard. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Corki usually has a much larger longest killing spree than his enemy does. On average, he takes a similar amount of damage to Bard. This often reflects differing health capacities; however, it can also show that the champion with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Corki and Bard
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Champion Playstyles Compared
Who is Better, Corki or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both champs have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Corki usually loses when facing off against Bard, with a 43.6% win rate. Thus, Corki makes a bad counter for Bard.
While Corki does have a much lower winrate than Bard, when on opposite teams, Corki also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less time consuming champion to pick up and master. You should expect to face a difficult match when picking Corki into Bard.
Furthermore, Corki also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion in League of Legends, in Corki vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a much lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during late stage team fights.
Corki is a terribly counter for Bard. You will do well by focussing your play on maximizing your CS and clearing objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Corki against Bard.
Other Champion Matchups Against Corki
Additional Information for Corki Players
How We Calculated Our Corki vs Bard Build and Stats
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Corki in order to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and tips displayed above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Corki usually gets much more CS compared to Bard. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS often don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have several high cost items to be effective. In either case, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The most crucial items to focus on in your Corki versus Bard build include Muramana, Malignance, and Spear of Shojin. When Corki included at least these three items in his build, he performed significantly better when facing Bard than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Corki had an average win rate of 43.6% when countering Bard with these items in his kit.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Bard as Corki, you should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Inspiration and Resolve rune sets. Of all the runes that we analyzed for Corki vs Bard fights, this combination of runes yielded the best win rate. Moreover, these runes averaged a 43.6% winrate overall.
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