Elise vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Elise
based on 888 Elise vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Elise vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Elise vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Elise
Tips for Playing as Elise against Bard
Spider Form is most effective at finishing off enemies with low health; Human Form's Neurotoxin does more damage to healthy foes.
Elise's Spider Form and Spider Form abilities do not cost mana and can be prioritized when you are trying to conserve mana.
When in Spider Form, Spiderlings will attack the target that Elise uses Venomous Bite on.
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.
Elise vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Elise in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify several important Elise vs. Bard matchup stats that may help you grasp the distinctions between the pair. As an example, Elise’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Elise may be more central to her team's team fighting capability than Bard. This observation is in large part fueled by the difference in kills.
Elise typically has a much larger longest killing spree than her counter does. Commonly, she takes more damage than Bard. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities; however, it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when poked or engaged.
Differences between Elise and Bard
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Who is Better, Elise or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Elise usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 45.0% win rate. Therefore, Elise makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Elise does have a much lower win rate than Bard, when on opposite teams, Elise also has a greater difficulty level that makes her a more challenging champion to pick up and master. You may get destroyed when picking Elise into Bardas her relative depth means you may not be able to reach her full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Elise has only a small amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't a single best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Elise vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a much lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Elise is a bad counter to Bard. Focus your gameplay on increasing your gold and cs and clearing objectives. If you can do that, you should do very well as Elise against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Elise to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to pick up a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you mind the build and tips presented above, you will increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Elise typically accumulates a similar amount of CS relative to Bard. Champions who on average don't earn much CS typically don't require much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. These kinds of champions are able to scale properly off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require many items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers reported here to do well.
The most important items to have in your Elise versus Bard build include Lich Bane, Shadowflame, and Stormsurge. When Elise included at least these three items in her build, she did a lot better against Bard than with most other common counter builds. In fact, Elise had an average winrate of 45.0% when playing against Bard with this counter build.
To have the highest likelihood of vanquishing Bard as Elise, Elise players should use the Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection, Relentless Hunter, Nimbus Cloak, and Waterwalking runes from the Domination and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune combinations players picked for Elise vs Bard matchups, this combo of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 45.0% winrate overall.
By default, tips, stats, and builds on how to beat Bard as Elise are given for every ranked division. To scope the stats and builds to a specific skill level, you should use the selection menu located earlier on the page.