Bard Build
Support Tier 4Patch 26.21 · Silver+ · 31,122 gamesUpdated
Who counters Bard
Swain43.5%540 games
Leona45.2%1,297 games
Milio45.0%718 games
Janna45.1%619 games
Teemo45.9%453 games · 26.20
How to build Bard
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Boots of Swiftness → Dead Man's Plate → Locket of the Iron Solari → Bandlepipes
18% of games
Flash + Ignite59%
World Atlas, Health Potion, Health PotionBest ADCs for Bard
Who Bard has the best record alongside in the bot lane this patch.
Each pairing is weighed by the games behind it, so a lucky handful cannot top either list.
Pairings are only half a team. Team Comp Tuesdays builds full five-champion compositions around picks like this.
Want the written version? Our Counter Series breaks down how to actually play against champions like this, not just who wins on paper.
Recent games
Taken from as high up the ladder as this pick gets played. All 10 games from Master and above.
S Bard+
B Jhinvs
S Neeko+
B YunaraBuild
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S Bard+B Jhinvs
S Thresh+
B JinxBuild
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S Bard+
B Luxvs
S Blitzcrank+
B Kai'SaBuild
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S Bard+
B Tristanavs
S Rakan+B JhinBuild
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S Bard+B Jhinvs
S Maokai+
B ApheliosBuild
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S Bard+
B Caitlynvs
S Kennen+B YunaraBuild
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S Bard+
B EzrealvsS Maokai+
B ZeriBuild
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S Bard+B Kai'Savs
S Senna+B JhinBuild
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S Bard+B Jhinvs
S Milio+
B KarthusBuild
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S Bard+B Caitlynvs
S Nautilus+
B ZiggsBuild
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Skills
Runes
The full page most players run, not just the keystone.
Summoner spells and early items
What people bring, and which ability they max first.
- Flash + Ignite59%47.7%18,800 games
- Flash + Heal29%50.3%9,167 games
Boots and the other slot items that do not count as finished items in the full build below.
76%8%6%49%25%17%Bard build
The items players finish, in the order they end up in the inventory.
- 1st
- 2nd
- 3rd
Every slot, boots and full builds
Slot by slot
Boots
Boots of Swiftness76% · 49.8% win rate
Mercury's Treads8% · 49.7% win rate
Ionian Boots of Lucidity6% · 47.6% win rate
Plated Steelcaps5% · 48.5% win rate
Slightly Magical Footwear3% · 36.5% win rate
Boots1% · 30.0% win rate
Most common full builds
- ›+8% of games · 47.6% win rate · 2,382 games
- +6% of games · 40.2% win rate · 1,926 games
- +4% of games · 40.4% win rate · 1,213 games
- ›+3% of games · 47.9% win rate · 975 games
- ›+3% of games · 50.6% win rate · 842 games
Where these numbers come from
We read finished ranked solo queue games directly from Riot and keep a running tally. Nothing is copied from another site.
Matchups compare Bard against the enemy champion in the same lane, counting only games where both were actually there. The counters list pulls each matchup toward Bard's own win rate by 180 games' worth of it, then keeps the ones still under 50%. A matchup seen thirty times barely moves off the champion's average, and one seen a thousand times keeps close to its own number. The best and worst ADCs are ranked the same way, against Bard's average instead of 50%.
Every number here is followed by the games behind it, because that's what tells you how much to trust it. A win rate over a few hundred games is worth reading. The same number over thirty is mostly luck.
Recent games show what was built and who won. They never show who played. Rank is grouped (Master and up is one band), game length is rounded to five minutes, and there's no region or date on a card.
Every ranked game we read this patch adds its finished items here, boots aside. Items are listed in the order they sit in the inventory, which isn't always the order they were bought: a finished item takes the slot its first part was in.
Compare a win rate only with the other picks in its own slot. A fifth item mostly shows up in long games, and those skew toward the team that was already ahead, so late slots run hot whatever sits in them. A row needs 30 games before it shows up at all.