Bard vs Yuumi Counter Pick

Yuumi’s health total is the lowest of the two champions here by a wide margin — 500 at level one, climbing to just 1,673 by level 18 — and her entire kit is built around never being caught outside You and Me!‘s attachment to an ally. Bard punishes exactly that dependency, winning 54.5% of 1,855 games on patch 16.13.1.

The trouble for Yuumi is that Bard’s disengage tools don’t need to target her directly to work — Tempered Fate can freeze her host mid-fight, and once that ally is out of the fight, Yuumi’s own damage (a 425-range missile in Prowling Projectile) rarely closes games alone. Her passive, Feline Friendship, heals her and her attached ally on landed hits, and Zoomies passes its Move Speed and Attack Speed boost to whoever she’s riding — real value, but none of it helps if Bard picks off that ally first. Difficulty sits at 2/10 for Yuumi against Bard’s 9/10, and with 1,855 games behind the number, this reading is about as reliable as these get. Yuumi struggles specifically against supports who disrupt her host rather than target her directly, and Bard is built exactly for that.