Kindred vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Kindred
based on 2,037 Kindred vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Kindred vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Kindred vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Kindred
Tips for Playing as Kindred against Bard
Pick which Hunts you want to pursue carefully; getting many of them is the key to success as the game goes on.
Don't go in first to a large team fight. Wait for your teammates to initiate.
Moving around between attacks while jungling will help you avoid damage and also generate more heals from Wolf's Frenzy.
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.
Kindred vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Kindred in LoL
The stats shown on this page emphasize several significant Kindred vs. Bard matchup stats that may help you explain the distinctions between this set of champs. Kindred’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Kindred may be more central to their team's team fighting capability than Bard. This observation is in large part fueled by the differences in killsdeaths.
Kindred often has a much larger longest killing spree than their foe does. Typically, they receives more damage than Bard. This commonly reflects different amounts of tankyness, but it can also indicate that the one champion has less agility and thus is not able to escape additional damage when poked or engaged.
Differences between Kindred and Bard
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Who is Better, Kindred or Bard?
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Kindred usually fairs equally well when trying to fight Bard, with a 49.2% win rate. Thus, Kindred makes an ok counter to Bard.
While Kindred does have a lower winrate compared to Bard, when they face off with one another, Kindred also has a much lower level of difficulty that makes them a less challenging champion to learn and master. You should be careful when picking Kindred into Bard.
Additionally, Kindred also has almost no amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when facing champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there isn't one best champion overall in League of Legends, in Kindred vs Bard matchups, Bard is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your team members during teamfights.
Kindred is a somewhat poor counter to Bard. Make sure you focus your gameplay on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Kindred against Bard.
Other Champion Matchups Against Kindred
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Kindred to counter Bard during both the early game and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you listen to the build and stats presented here, you should increase your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Kindred typically accumulates a similar amount of CS compared to Bard. Champs who typically don't take many minion kills typically don't need much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are able to scale well off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to do better than the values reported here to do well.
The most important items to focus on in your Kindred versus Bard build include Guinsoo's Rageblade, Terminus, and Kraken Slayer. When Kindred combined at least these three items in their build, they did much better countering Bard than with many other typical counter builds. In fact, Kindred had an average win rate of 49.2% battling Bard with these items in their kit.
To have the greatest chance of beating Bard as Kindred, you should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Alacrity, Coup de Grace, Sudden Impact, and Treasure Hunter runes from the Precision and Domination rune sets. Of all the rune builds we have analyed for Kindred vs Bard counter picks, this composite of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. Moreover, these runes gave a 49.2% winrate overall.
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