Udyr is one of the best junglers in the game. Taking advantage of this can give your team a large XP advantage and map control.
Damage is applied to turtle shield post-mitigation. Therefore, buying defensive items can drastically increase your survivability.
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 provided here clarify several significant Udyr against Bard counter stats that may help us explain the distinctions between the pair. For instance, Udyr’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is better than Bard’s KDA ratio of NaN, indicating that Udyr may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Bard..
Udyr often has a slightly larger longest kill spree than his foe does. Typically, he takes more damage than Bard. This often reflects differing health capacities, yet it can also show that the one champ has less mobility and thus is not able to kite away from additional damage when poked or engaged.
Both LoL champions are great. Both have their pros and cons. In League's current meta, Udyr usually fairs equally well when playing against Bard, with a 49.3% win rate. Therefore, Udyr makes an ok counter to Bard.
While Udyr does have a lower win rate than Bard, when on opposite teams, Udyr also has a lower difficulty level that makes him a less difficult champ to learn. You still need to be cautious when picking Udyr into Bardas his relative depth means you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Additionally, Udyr 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 fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not one best champion in League of Legends, in Udyr 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 allied champions during team fights.
Udyr is a somewhat poor counter to Bard. You will do well by focussing your tactics on keeping up your gold and cs and taking out objectives. If you can do that, you should be able to stand on your own as Udyr against Bard.
To truly master Udyr in order to counter Bard during both the laning and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to gather a few extra lessons on this matchup. If you mind the build and stats shown here, you will grow your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Udyr often picks up more CS relative to Bard. Champs who on average don't acquire much CS often don't need much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are able to scale properly off of their abilities and first items alone. Yet, champions with a lot of CS, such as hyper-carries, often need many items to be effective. In either situation, try to exceed the values shown here to do well.
The ideal items to have in your Udyr versus Bard build include Unending Despair, Liandry's Torment, and Jak'Sho, The Protean. When Udyr combined at least these three pieces in his build, he did a lot better when facing Bard than with many other commonly used builds. In fact, Udyr had an average winrate of 49.3% battling Bard with this build.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Bard as Udyr, you should equip the Grasp of the Undying, Shield Bash, Second Wind, Revitalize, Approach Velocity, and Biscuit Delivery runes from the Resolve and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the runes players chose for Udyr vs Bard battles, this sequence of runes yielded the greatest win rate. In fact, these runes averaged a 49.3% winrate overall.
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