Bard·Top Build

Most Popular

If you want to use the most popular Bard Top build, you should take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. For runes, you should pick Dark Harvest as your keystone, followed by Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection and Relentless Hunter in the primary tree, as well as Celerity and Waterwalking in the secondary tree. For rune shards, you want Attack Speed in offense, Move Speed 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 and Heartsteel. For your last 3 items, you should build Dead Man's Plate, Warmog's Armor and finish with Liandry's Torment. For the skill order, you want to stick with Q - W - E. Right now, this build has 59.8% winrate over 92 matches played.

Optional

Your second option for Bard Top build would be to take Flash and Ignite as your Summoner Spells. The runes that this build takes advantage of are Electrocute as your keystone, Cheap Shot, Eyeball Collection and Relentless Hunter in the primary tree, and Celerity with Gathering Storm in the secondary tree. The shards used in this build are Attack Speed in offense, Health Scaling in flex and Health Scaling in defense. The items for the build are Bloodsong, which you should build first, followed by Boots as your second item and Heartsteel as your third item. The rest of the items in order are Dead Man's Plate, Rapid Firecannon and Statikk Shiv. The skill order for this build is Q - W - E. In the current patch, this build has a 49.4% win rate over 81 matches.

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.