Gwen vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Gwen
based on 2,198 Gwen vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Gwen vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Gwen vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Gwen
Tips for Playing as Gwen against Bard
Gwen can still damage enemies outside her Hallowed Mists, especially with her Ultimate's range.
Some of Gwen's Abilities can apply her passive to multiple enemies, so aim them at groups to get maximum damage and healing.
Always be Attacking - In addition to dealing bonus damage, Gwen's Attacks empower or reset many of her Abilities.
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.
Gwen vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Gwen in LoL
The stats provided here show some valuable Gwen vs. Bard counter stats that can help us figure out the differences between the pair. As an example, Gwen’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s ratio of NaN, showing that Gwen may be more central to her team's team fighting capacity than Bard. This observation is largely fueled by the difference in kills.
Gwen usually has a slightly larger longest killing spree than her counter does. On average, she receives more damage than Bard. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to escape further damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Gwen and Bard
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Who is Better, Gwen or Bard?
Both League of Legends champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Gwen usually loses when taking on Bard, with a 46.1% win rate. Therefore, Gwen makes a poor counter to Bard.
While Gwen does have a lower winrate compared to Bard, when they face off with one another, Gwen also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to develop with. You should be very concerned when picking Gwen into Bard.
Moreover, Gwen also has some amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during teamfights, 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 Gwen 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 allies during late stage team fights.
Gwen is a trash counter for Bard. You will do well by focussing your play on keeping up your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Gwen against Bard.
Other Champion Matchups Against Gwen
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
If you would like to learn all of the intricacies of Gwen in order to counter Bard during both the lane 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 suggestions displayed above, you should grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Gwen typically picks up much more CS as Bard. Champs who on average don't earn much CS often don't need much CS to be effective, such as support champions. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the numbers shown here to do well.
The top items to use in your Gwen versus Bard build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Cosmic Drive, and Riftmaker. When Gwen included at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better vs Bard than with most other common builds. In fact, Gwen had an average win rate of 46.1% when countering Bard with this build.
To have the greatest likelihood of coming out on top against Bard as Gwen, you should equip the Conqueror, Presence of Mind, Legend: Alacrity, Last Stand, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets that we analyzed for Gwen vs Bard matchups, this sequence of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 46.1% win rate overall.
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