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 Fleet Footwork as your keystone, followed by Triumph, Legend: Haste and Cut Down in the primary tree, as well as Conditioning and Overgrowth 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 Warmog's Armor. For your last 3 items, you should build Wit's End, Frozen Heart and finish with Vigilant Wardstone. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 53.8% winrate over 4 201 matches played.

Alternative

If you're looking for alternatives, you can use Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells, with runes being Fleet Footwork as your keystone, Triumph, Legend: Haste and Cut Down 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 Solstice Sleigh as your first item, then Boots of Swiftness as a second item and Warmog's Armor as a third item. You want to finish the build with Locket of the Iron Solari, Frozen Heart 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 53.4% win rate across 1 092 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, Ghost Poro and Relentless Hunter as your primary rune tree, and Waterwalking with Celerity 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 Warmog's Armor as third item. The last 3 options are Wit's End, Locket of the Iron Solari and Vigilant Wardstone. The ability order for this build is Q - W - E. As of the current patch, this build has a 48.8% win rate over 162 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.