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.
The stat comparisons shown on this page feature some critical Lillia vs. Bard matchup stats that can help you explain the differences and similarities between this set of champs. As an example, Lillia’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, demonstrating that Lillia may be more central to her team's team fighting potential than Bard. This observation is in large part caused by the difference in kills.
Lillia often has a much larger longest killing spree than her matchup does. On average, she takes more damage than Bard. This typically indicates differing health capacities, yet it can also imply that the champ with increased health has less agility and thus is unable to flee from additional harm when engaged or poked.
Both League of Legends champions are great champions. Both have their strengths, weaknesses, and counters. In League's current meta, Lillia usually wins when taking on Bard, with a 53.6% win rate. As a result, Lillia makes a great counter for Bard.
While Lillia does have a higher win rate than Bard, when facing one another, Lillia also has a lower difficulty level that makes her a less complex champ to pick up and master. You don't need to be too worried when picking Lillia into Bardas her relative depth means you may not be able to unleash her full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Lillia has some amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Bard. This makes her just as valuable during teamfights, especially when trying to counter champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion for every situation in League of Legends, in Lillia vs Bard matchups, Lillia is the better champion with a noticably higher win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your allies during teamfights.
Lillia is a great counter for Bard. Make sure you focus your tactics on keeping up your gold income and taking out objectives. If you do that, you should do very well as Lillia against Bard.
To learn all of the intricacies of Lillia in order to counter Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to pick up a few extra tricks and insights into this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions shown above, you should grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Lillia on average picks up more CS relative to Bard. Champs who typically don't take much CS often don't have to have much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, typically need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values reported here to do well.
The top items to focus on in your Lillia versus Bard build include Rabadon's Deathcap, Riftmaker, and Liandry's Torment. When Lillia combined at least these three pieces in her build, she performed much better against Bard than with most other commonly used item sets. In fact, Lillia boasted an average winrate of 53.6% battling Bard with this build.
To have the best likelihood of vanquishing Bard as Lillia, Lillia players should take the Conqueror, Triumph, Legend: Tenacity, Coup de Grace, Magical Footwear, and Cosmic Insight runes from the Precision and Inspiration rune sets. Of all the rune sets players chose for Lillia vs Bard matchups, this mixture of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 53.6% winrate overall.
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