Miss Fortune vs Bard
How to Beat Bard as Miss Fortune
based on 13,883 Miss Fortune vs Bard matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Miss Fortune vs Bard Matchup Summary
Best Miss Fortune vs Bard Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Bard as Miss Fortune
Tips for Playing as Miss Fortune against Bard
Miss Fortune ramps up speed if she hasn't recently taken damage. Avoid getting hit to move very fast.
Use Double Up on the furthest enemy minion if enemy champions are hiding in back; it will bounce to them for lots of damage.
Make sure to utilize Love Tap while Strut is on cooldown to maximize the active's availability.
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.
Miss Fortune vs Bard Counter Stats
How to Counter Bard with Miss Fortune in LoL
The stat comparisons shown on this page clarify some valuable Miss Fortune vs. Bard counter stats that can help us explain the differences and similarities between the pair. For instance, Miss Fortune’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s ratio of NaN, indicating that Miss Fortune may be more central to her team's team fighting effectiveness than Bard. This observation is largely caused by the difference in kills.
Miss Fortune often has a much larger longest kill spree than her counter does. On average, she takes a similar amount of damage to Bard. This commonly reflects differing health capacities, but it can also hint that the champ with increased HP has less agility and thus is not able to escape further harm when engaged or poked.
Differences between Miss Fortune and Bard
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Who is Better, Miss Fortune or Bard?
Both League champs are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Miss Fortune usually fairs equally well when facing off against Bard, with a 50.4% win rate. Therefore, Miss Fortune makes an ok counter to Bard.
While Miss Fortune does have a higher win rate compared to Bard, when on opposite teams, Miss Fortune also has a much lower difficulty level that makes her a less challenging character to pick up and master. You still need to be cautious when picking Miss Fortune into Bard.
Additionally, Miss Fortune also has almost no amount of CC and other utility, a similar amount to Bard. This often makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when trying to counter champions with a lot of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Miss Fortune vs Bard matchups, Miss Fortune is the better champion with a similar win rate, less champion complexity, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during team fights.
Miss Fortune is a decent counter to Bard. You will do well by focussing your play on increasing your CS and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should hold your own as Miss Fortune against Bard.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To truly master Miss Fortune to counter Bard during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should continue reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you pay attention to the build and suggestions displayed above, you will grow your win rate significantly and be that much closer to League of Legends pro players.
Miss Fortune most often picks up much more CS relative to Bard. Champs who on average don't earn many minion kills usualy don't require much CS to be effective, such as sup champs. These kinds of champions are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually have to have a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the values reported here to do well.
The ideal items to use in your Miss Fortune versus Bard build include Youmuu's Ghostblade, Serylda's Grudge, and Opportunity. When Miss Fortune bought at least these three pieces in her build, she did significantly better vs Bard than with most other commonly used counter builds. In fact, Miss Fortune had an average win rate of 50.4% when countering Bard with these items in her kit.
To have the highest probability of coming out on top against Bard as Miss Fortune, Miss Fortune players should equip the First Strike, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery, Cosmic Insight, Absolute Focus, and Gathering Storm runes from the Inspiration and Sorcery rune sets. Of all the rune builds that we analyzed for Miss Fortune vs Bard counterpicks, this mixture of runes resulted in the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 50.4% winrate overall.
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