Bard vs Yuumi Counter Pick
Matchup Summary
What the Data Means
Bard is a support/mage hybrid, Yuumi a support/mage hybrid, and they meet in the Support lane. 1,855 tracked games on 16.13.1 put Bard at a 54.5% win rate into Yuumi. A 4.5-point edge is what puts this matchup in Bard’s column.
Bard and Yuumi overlap on mixed damage, so itemisation converges rather than splits. Bard opens on 630 health and 34 armour, Yuumi on 500 and 25. That 9-point armour gap favours Bard in the first all-in. Bard scales to 2381 health by 18 while Yuumi reaches 1673. Bard walks at 335 and Yuumi at 330, so Bard dodges skillshots a fraction easier.
Both champions are ranged (Bard at 500, Yuumi at 425), so the lane is decided by cooldowns rather than reach.
Bard looks for Magical Journey (E); Yuumi answers with Prowling Projectile (Q). Then it becomes Tempered Fate against Final Chapter, and the one still holding it sets the terms.
Riot scores Bard at 9/10 for difficulty against 2/10, and that gap alone drags on the average. Pair 54.5% with its 1,855 games and patch 16.13.1 before calling the matchup settled. The Bard versus Yuumi numbers rebuild from current Emerald and above games.
FAQ
Yes — Bard holds the statistical advantage in this matchup. Bard wins 54.5% of the recorded games.
54.5% from Bard's perspective, measured on patch 16.13.1.
1,855 ranked games at Emerald rank and above, across all regions.
The current Bard build — items, runes and skill order from the same data set — is on the Bard build page.