Gnar vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Gnar
based on 1,081 Gnar vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gnar vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Gnar vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Gnar
Tips for Playing as Gnar against Bard
Position yourself next to walls to bait your enemies into getting stunned by your ultimate.
Know your strengths! Mini Gnar is fast, squishy, and has high sustained damage. Mega Gnar is slow, tough, and has high burst.
Managing your Rage is very important. Try to time out your transformations so you can get maximum benefit from both forms.
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.
Gnar vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Gnar in LoL
The stats shown here feature some critical Gnar versus Bard counter stats that may help us figure out the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Gnar’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, showing that Gnar may be more central to his team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard..
Gnar often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Commonly, he takes more damage than Bard. This is usually reflective of differing health capacities, but it can also imply that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to flee from further damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Gnar and Bard
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Who is Better, Gnar or Bard?
Both League champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In the game's current meta, Gnar usually loses when playing against Bard, with a 47.6% win rate. As a result, Gnar makes a bad counter to Bard.
While Gnar does have a lower winrate than Bard, when facing one another, Gnar also has a lower level of difficulty that makes him a less complex champion to develop with. You may get destroyed when picking Gnar into Bardas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a significant amount of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Gnar has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when facing champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Gnar vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champ with a lower win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allied champions during teamfights.
Gnar is a garbage counter for Bard. Make sure you focus your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should hold your own as Gnar against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Gnar in order to counter Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you listen to the build and suggestions shown above, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gnar on average accumulates much more CS as Bard. Champs who typically don't acquire much CS typically don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as supports. They are able to scale well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require several high cost items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The top items to prioritize in your Gnar versus Bard build include Black Cleaver, Trinity Force, and Sundered Sky. When Gnar incorporated at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better against Bard than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Gnar had an average win rate of 47.6% battling Bard with this build.
To have the highest likelihood of annihilating Bard as Gnar, Gnar players should use the Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Bone Plating, and Overgrowth runes from the Precision and Resolve rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Gnar vs Bard battles, this blending of runes resulted in the best win rate. Moreover, these runes provided a 47.6% winrate overall.
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