Brandvs Bard
Brand vs Bard is a decisive matchup in LoL patch 26.19. Brand wins with a 55.6% win rate (+11.1%) over Bard based on 27 games. Brand holds the advantage in both the early and late game. Below you'll find the best Brand build, runes, laning stats, and strategies for the Brand vs Bard matchup.
Brand Matchup Breakdown
Use the dropdown to select an opponent and see a detailed breakdown of how Brand performs against them. You'll get head-to-head win rates, laning stats, the best build and runes for the matchup, and early vs late game analysis — all based on real ranked data.
Who wins Brand vs Bard?
Brand wins 45.1% of these games. With this many games the true rate is most likely between 32.3% and 58.6% (95% range).
- Expected
- 52.3% From both champions' overall Support win rates
- Matchup effect
- −7.2 pts Observed minus expected
- Sample
- 51 games Lane: Support
- vs patch 26.18
- −14.5 pts Within normal patch-to-patch noise
Lane: Support · Ranked Solo/Duo & Flex · North America server · All ranks · Patch 26.19 · Sep 24 – Sep 28
Key takeaways
- Current data slightly favors Bard, but the sample is too limited for a strong conclusion: Brand wins 45.1% of 51 games (95% range 32.3–58.6%).
- Both champions' overall Support win rates predict 52.3% for Brand; the result is within the margin of error of that, so this matchup mostly reflects the two champions' general strength.
- Neither side reliably wins the lane: the average gold difference at 15 minutes is 169, within the margin of error (50 games).
- Brand players pick Adaptive Force (flex) much less often against Bard: 95.7% of their other Support games, 86.3% here.
How we calculate this
Games: ranked Solo/Duo and Flex games on the North America server from the patch shown. Remakes (games under 5 minutes) are excluded.
A game only counts when Brand and Bard played the same position on opposite teams, so roaming, lane swaps within a team or a champion merely being in the same game never count as this matchup.
The 95% range is a Wilson score interval. Confidence comes from how wide that range is: within ±3 points is very high, ±5 high, ±8 moderate, anything wider low. Below 20 games a matchup is not classified at all.
Expected win rate combines both champions’ win rates in this lane (same games and filters) with the log5 formula: E = A(1−B) / (A(1−B) + B(1−A)). Matchup effect = observed − expected.
"What changes" compares Brand's choices in this matchup with the same champion's other games in the same lane, and lists a change only when it is at least 3 points and statistically significant (two-proportion z-test, |z| ≥ 2, 20+ games).
Results are not split by rank: the sample per rank is too small for honest per-rank matchup numbers.
Brand vs Bard Laning Stats
At 15 minutes
Whole-game averages
Brand vs Bard Win Rate by Game Length
Brand's win rate against Bard by game length. The dot is the win rate, the bar its 95% range and the dashed line the champion's usual win rate at that length. Lengths with fewer than 25 games are left blank.
No game length stands out: Brand's results against Bard in short and long games are within the margin of error of each other.
Brand vs Bard Power Spikes
Who is ahead at each stage, measured from these games. A stage reads "Even" when the difference is inside the margin of error, and "Insufficient data" when there are too few games to tell.
- Lane (15 min)EvenBrand gold at 15: +169
- First itemBrandBrand: 12.9 min · Bard: 14.5 min
- Games under 20 minInsufficient data
- 20–30 min gamesInsufficient data
- 30+ min gamesInsufficient data
What Brand Changes Against Bard
Choices Brand players make noticeably more or less often in this matchup than in their other Support games.
Adaptive Force (flex)Stat shardUsually95.7%vs Bard86.3%−9.5 pts45.5% WR here
Move Speed (flex)Stat shardUsually3.7%vs Bard11.8%+8.1 pts
Legend: HasteRuneUsually3.1%vs Bard9.8%+6.7 pts
CryptbloomItemUsuallyunder 0.5%vs Bard3.9%+3.9 pts
Health Potion + Health Potion + Control Ward + Stealth WardStarting itemsUsually0.6%vs Bard4.0%+3.4 pts
Best Brand Build vs Bard
Usual Brand build (Support)
62.0% win rate · 158 games
Against Bard
Not enough matchup-specific build data: only 5 of 23 Brand games against Bard carried a complete build, which is too few to recommend an item path from. Use Brand's standard build instead.
- Brand usually completes Rylai's Crystal Scepter first, at 12.9 min (median of 20 games).
- Bard usually completes Dead Man's Plate first, at 14.5 min (median of 26 games).
- Skill priority: W > Q > E — the same as usual.
Builds are ranked by the lower edge of their win rate range, not the raw win rate, so a build seen in a handful of wins never outranks a proven one.
Best Brand Runes vs Bard
Usual Brand runes (Support)
Deathfire Touch
55.4% win rate · 352 games
Against Bard
Deathfire Touch50.0% win rate · 22 games
Plan your Brand draft in Draft Lab
Draft Lab lays out both teams lane by lane with live matchup win rates, damage profiles and game-phase lean, and suggests picks and bans from current meta data.
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Brand matchup data for League of Legends patch 26.19. The table below shows Brand's win rate, gold difference, and performance stats against every champion in the current meta. Click any champion name to see a detailed head-to-head breakdown including the best Brand build, runes, laning stats, and early vs late game analysis for that specific matchup.
Other Brand Matchups
Hardest for Brand
Easiest for Brand
Win rate and games for each matchup. Lists are ranked by the edge of the 95% range so small samples cannot top them; matchups with at least 50 games only.
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Brand vs Bard FAQ - Patch 26.19
Who wins Brand vs Bard?
Current data slightly favors Bard, but the sample is too limited for a strong conclusion: Brand wins 45.1% of 51 games (95% range 32.3–58.6%).
What is Brand's win rate against Bard?
Brand wins 45.1% of 51 Support games against Bard on patch 26.19 (95% range 32.3–58.6%). Based on both champions' overall Support win rates, 52.3% would be expected.
Does Brand counter Bard?
Not clearly. Brand wins 45.1% of 51 games against Bard, and the 95% range (32.3–58.6%) includes 50%, so neither champion reliably counters the other on current data.
Who wins lane, Brand or Bard?
Neither side reliably wins the lane: the average gold difference at 15 minutes is 169, within the margin of error (50 games).
Does Brand outscale Bard?
There are too few games of each length to tell yet.
When is Bard strongest against Brand?
On current data there is no stage of the game where Bard is ahead of Brand beyond the margin of error.
What should Brand build against Bard?
There are not enough games for a matchup-specific core, so use Brand's usual Support core: Liandry's Torment, Malignance, Rylai's Crystal Scepter. The biggest change against Bard: Cryptbloom (under 0.5% usually, 3.9% here).
What runes should Brand use against Bard?
Deathfire Touch with Sorcery and Precision — 50.0% over 22 games against Bard. The biggest change against Bard: Adaptive Force (flex) (95.7% usually, 86.3% here).