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 Biscuit Delivery and Magical Footwear 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 Boots of Swiftness and Dead Man's Plate. For your last 3 items, you should build Statikk Shiv, Redemption and finish with Vigilant Wardstone. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 52.5% winrate over 5 776 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Unsealed Spellbook as your keystone, Magical Footwear, Biscuit Delivery and Cosmic Insight in the primary tree, and Conditioning with Overgrowth 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 Ionian Boots of Lucidity as a second item and Dead Man's Plate as a third item. You want to finish the build with Abyssal Mask, Statikk Shiv and Locket of the Iron Solari. As far as ability max order goes, you want to keep it Q - W - E. This build is currently sitting at a 49.9% win rate across 1 314 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, Fleet Footwork, Triumph, Legend: Haste and Cut Down as your primary rune tree, and Conditioning with Overgrowth as your secondary tree. Use Attack Speed, Health Scaling 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, Redemption and Vigilant Wardstone. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 55.0% win rate over 771 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.