Ahri Even She outpokes you pretty hard and has a lot of mobility to screw your combo over. Look to Q through minions and catch her for a meep-empowered auto attack and thunderlords proc. Late game, auto her for the slow and try to stun her on another ally or wall with Q so your team can jump on her.

Akali Even Melee so she is very susceptible to your Q, but since we have no MR glyphs she hurts a lot. If she is trying to engage, I recommend having heals behind you leading to your tower so she can't just tower dive you at level 6. Peel her off by ulting yourself under tower if necessary.

Anivia Tiny Highly immobile and recently nerfed. Can't dodge your combo, wall useless against you. Easy lane.

Annie Even No mobility so she is possible to catch with Q and proc thunderlords off of, but when she gets protobelt her damage becomes a real threat. Try to beat her pre-6.

Aurelion Sol Tiny You can literally just harass ASol for minutes straight since his damage is all telegraphed and his poke does nothing early on. You should be able to instakill him with two or three items if you gunblade.

Azir Extreme Avoid Azir if you can. He has a lot of ways to harass you from places where you can't get anywhere near him, and if you do get near him he's just going to EQ out of whatever you're going to do. You can still catch him out with your ult if his reaction time is bad, but it isn't likely.

Brand Tiny You can sit behind your minions and outpoke Brand since his abilities rely on being close for the most part. He can't get close enough to E without losing the trade, wasting Q on poke hurts him heavily, and his W does almost no damage if he doesn't hit another spell first.

Cassiopeia Extreme I don't think I can write a guide where Cass isn't a threat. She nukes mobility, she nukes you, and she nukes your team. You can almost outpoke her in lane, but if you get caught in her W you can say goodbye to your health. Her E restoring health makes her sustain better than yours once she gets a tear.

Cho'Gath Minor While Cho has a lot of presence in lane, you can harass him really hard since his mobility is virtually nothing. Try to predict where he will use Q and stay out of the range of his W, and you should win this lane.

Ezreal Major All Ezreal does is poke. While he can sit behind minions and snipe you when you make any mistakes, you can't really reach him. If you catch him out without E or flash, you can try to stun him with Q or line up a Q with ult. Since he's an ADC, you can burst him with a few items.

Fizz Minor You can harass Fizz really hard in lane since his E will be on such a high cooldown. Late game, you can ult whoever his ult latches on to so the damage is mitigated, you can outheal his W DoT and you can burst him pretty hard since he's squishy (assuming you catch him with no E and zhonyas)

Galio Tiny Low mobility, you can ult your allies while he's in his ult so they take no damage and you can even stun him out of it from a safe distance. If you can avoid his Q, this matchup is easy.

Heimerdinger Minor He makes minions for you to stun him on, so his normal turtling tactics won't work. You can even just ult his ult-Q so it can't do anything. Outpoke him in lane and he'll be useless.

Jayce Major Jayce can outpoke you if he's smart, but when he tries to do his melee combo you can stun him on his minion wave or a wall and outtrade him extremely hard. Be careful for ganks or flanking, since Jayce can definitely one shot you.

Karma Major Karma outpokes you, can lock you down with W, and shields all of your damage on her whole team with E. Even catching her out is hard because of her movement speed on her shield. Try to get jungler help to take her out early since she's somewhat feast or famine.

Karthus Tiny Immobile, easy to dodge his Q. Just build mobility boots early and avoid his wall of pain and you should be able to outpoke him as long as he doesn't get into a range where his E hits you. That ability hurts more than you would think. Ult/heal low health allies when he tries to ult.

Katarina Tiny Katarina's movements are extremely telegraphed by her daggers, so you can easily poke her out with Q and autos. If she tries to engage, Q stun or ult her out of her ult and either run or kill her.

LeBlanc Even Lots of damage, lots of teleporting with W, so try to predict when she will try to teleport back to her W and either Q or ult her so you can set up your combo for winning trades.

Lissandra Major She can out poke you very hard with her passive, and at level 6 she can one shot you with her ult/Q/E/W/Q combo. Try to learn when she will engage on you, and ult her/yourself before or as she is ulting you so she can't get her dps down.

Lux Extreme Outpokes you, outranges you, and can even instakill you with her level 6 combo. Try to stay alive in lane and either flash out of her ult or ult yourself when you get snared so you don't explode. Either find lucky Q opportunities where you can try to outtrade her or use ult to set up for yourself and/or your jungler.

Morgana Even Neither of you really have kill potential on each other, but you poke through minions and she can't. Ult yourself/her when she tries to ult you and just avoid her bindings, and you should win lane.

Orianna Major Similar to Azir, but doesn't need attack speed to one shot you with a combo. Also a lot less safe, since she has no real mobility spells aside from a speed increase. Try to get your jungler to flank her or just land a good stun and you can outtrade her before she uses her E to shield.

Ryze Minor Versatile, but Bard can heavily outtrade him early game and abuse Ryze's lack of sustain to shove him out of lane.

Syndra Extreme As a heavy control mage with such high amounts of burst that she's regarded as brainless, she's a massive threat. You can, however, outpoke her from behind the minions and juke her QE and WE combo horizontally to avoid the stun and hit back. Just be careful of level 6, because any stun she has landing means the end of your life.

Taliyah Even A good Taliyah should be able to outpoke you until you have lost enough health to have to waste flash on her EW combo. A bad Taliyah will try to use the combo early and get punished for it. Either way, she has no real mobility spells so you can punish her from behind your minions.

Talon Extreme High mobility, high damage, easy poke through minions, and can one shot you with a serrated dirk at level 6. Try to abuse him pre-6 and avoid his early game passive+ignite cheese, and you should be able to harass him until he can't farm. That, or get your jungler to deal with him once he wastes his W.

Teemo Extreme Teemo is broken this patch, plain and simple. One shots anybody with Liandry's and Gunblade. You can poke him in lane, but once he gets those two items there's not much chance of taking him out.

Twisted Fate Major Twisted Fate has a lot of poke and an easily accessible stun, but he lacks in the mobility department. If he ults in lane and goes to roam, you can ult or stun him out of his ult. Similarly, if he tries to go near you, you can punish him with Q and back off so he wastes mana.

Veigar Major If Veigar gets a lot of farm or lands a lot of abilities, you pretty much instantly lose. He'll throw down a circle that you can ult yourself inside of, and he's low mobility, but having 1000 AP within 30 minutes is not ok.

Vel'Koz Even Vel'koz has a lot of poke, a little bit of mobility, and is hard countered by Bard, actually. If he can't hit E before a close-range trade, you win that trade since you can just walk out of both his Q and W. When he tries to ult, you can ult him and stop it. However, he still has a lot of kill potential through his true damage passive, so be careful.

Viktor Minor Viktor is immobile. You can also get away from his ult with E and protobelt both, so when he tries to use his full combo, just protobelt to the nearest wall and E through. Maybe if you're lucky, he'll follow you through and you'll be waiting with a stun and a jungler. :)

Vladimir Tiny Low damage early, higher damage late, immobile, yet mobile. Vlad is kind of weird. You can poke him in lane, but his manaless health-restoring kit rivals even your heals. I would call this one of the only actual farm lanes.

Xerath Even Xerath has a lot of high-damage poke and also a slow and stun all on the same kit. You can try to avoid his ult with your E similar to Viktor, but if he knows where the E ends he can predict a shot and likely kill you as you go through. He is immobile though, so dodging his Q and E means you win trades easily.

Yasuo Minor Yasuo, being melee, is a very fun matchup for Bard. If he tries to get to you using your minions, just Q auto to stun him and proc thunderlords. Bait his windwall with autos. If he is ulting a target, ult both of them and none of the damage will go through, or just ult Yasuo to let his target go free.

Zed Even Zed is highly mobile, has a lot of damage and poke, but is still melee. Your ult also counters his since you can cancel the damage it deals, and you can even pick up a Zhonya's to even further the chance that his ult doesn't damage you.

Ziggs Minor Ziggs has some mobility and tons of poke, and especially when he picks up mana you are potentially in trouble. Your ult counters his since you can just ult the center of his if you get stuck there, you can outpoke him pretty hard since all of his damage is telegraphed, and it isn't a problem if he escapes with low health because he has zero sustain.

Zilean Tiny Your ult counters Zilean's Q, but he isn't very killable. He's probably just going to use E and run, and just ult even if you kill him. Remember; can't killean the Zilean. But in a fight, kill him first so he can't ult a higher priority target.

Zyra Even Zyra does damage. More specifically, her plants do. You don't have many tools to deal with her plants, so you should just try to poke her and heal/run when the damage starts piling up. She can almost instantly kill you if she lands a snare on you since her combo+plants do upwards of 1200 damage with one full item.