Bard·Support Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Bard Support build, you should take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Guardian as your keystone, followed by Font of Life, Conditioning and Overgrowth in the primary tree, as well as Magical Footwear and Biscuit Delivery in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense, though it depends on the matchup. Finally, for your items, you should build Bloodsong as your first item, followed by Plated Steelcaps and Dead Man's Plate. For your last 3 items, you should build Statikk Shiv, Kaenic Rookern and finish with Vigilant Wardstone. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 52.7% winrate over 957 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Bard Support build would be to take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Guardian as your keystone, Font of Life, Bone Plating and Unflinching in the primary tree, and Relentless Hunter with Zombie Ward in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Attack Speed in offense, Adaptive Force in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Solstice Sleigh, which you should build first, followed by Boots of Swiftness as your second item and Locket of the Iron Solari as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Redemption, Shurelya's Battlesong and Vigilant Wardstone. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E. In the current patch, this build has a 49.6% win rate over 820 matches.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Guardian as your keystone, Font of Life, Bone Plating and Unflinching in the primary tree, and Relentless Hunter with Zombie Ward in the secondary tree, as well as Attack Speed, Health Scaling, and Health Scaling as your rune shards. The items that this build incorporates are Bloodsong as your first item, then Boots of Swiftness as a second item and Heartsteel as a third item. You want to finish the build with Locket of the Iron Solari, Redemption and Vigilant Wardstone. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 49.0% win rate across 467 matches played.

Off-Meta

If you want to try an Off-Meta Bard Support build in the current patch, try Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, Electrocute, Cheap Shot, Zombie Ward and Relentless Hunter as your primary rune tree, and Celerity with Scorch as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Adaptive Force and Health Scaling as your shards. For items in this build, you want to complete Bloodsong as your first item, then finish Boots of Swiftness as your second item, and Dead Man's Plate as third item. The last 3 options are Statikk Shiv, Kaenic Rookern and Zhonya's Hourglass. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 52.3% win rate over 128 matches played.

Situational Bard Runes and Items

Depending on the context of your game, your matchup, and enemy champions, you might want to consider building some situational items or take specific runes. Carefully examine your team, enemy team, game state , and your matchup to plan your Bard build accordingly! For example, when it comes to rune shards, you might want to take either Armor or Magic Resist, depending on which champion you are about to lane against.