[Tutorial Patch 12.9] Bard Support, Recommended Items | Masteries | Runes | Summoner Spells

Champion Info (Bard support 5v5 patch 12.9)

                
                Bard Stats
Attack: 52
Defense: 4
Magic: 5
Difficulty: 9
Health: 560
Move Speed: 330
Armor: 34
Range: 500
Health Regen: 5.5
Critical Strike: 0
Attack Speed: 0.625

            
Bardthe Wandering Caretaker

                         Support   Mage
                    
Bard 5v5 support

                    SUPPORT
                    Tier: A
Win Rate: 51.08%
Role Rate: 95.06%
Pick Rate: 2.70%
Ban Rate: 0.59%
Games: 18734
KDA: 2.95
Score: 61.76

                

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A traveler from beyond the stars, Bard is an agent of serendipity who fights to maintain a balance where life can endure the indifference of chaos. Many Runeterrans sing songs that ponder his extraordinary nature, yet they all agree that the cosmic vagabond is drawn to artifacts of great magical power. Surrounded by a jubilant choir of helpful spirit meeps, it is impossible to mistake his actions as malevolent, as Bard always serves the greater good... in his own odd way.

Bard Tips (Ally)

It's important to collect chimes to improve your meep's attacks, but don't neglect your lane partner! Try to make a big entrance by bringing an ally into the lane with you with Magical Journey.
Let your Caretaker's Shrines charge up - they heal for a lot more when at full power.
Don't forget that enemies can also use your Magical Journey doorways, and that your ultimate can also hit your allies!

Bard Tips (Enemy)

Bard's opponents can also travel through his Magical Journey doorways. You can follow him, if you think it's safe.
You can crush Bard's healing shrines just by walking over them. Don't let his allies take them without a fight.
Bard's ultimate, Tempered Fate, affects allies, enemies, monsters, and turrets alike. Sometimes it can be to your advantage to jump into it!

Summoner Spells

Flash

Consumable: 0

Cooldown: 300

Range: 425

Teleports your champion a short distance toward your cursor's location.

Ignite

Consumable: 0

Cooldown: 180

Range: 600

Ignites target enemy champion, dealing 70-410 true damage (depending on champion level) over 5 seconds, grants you vision of the target, and reduces healing effects on them for the duration.

Bard Masteries

Resolve	Guardian Guard allies within 350 units of you, and allies you target with spells for 2.5s. While Guarding, if you or the ally take more than a small amount of damage over the duration of the Guard, both of you gain a shield for 1.5s. Cooldown: 70 - 40 seconds Shield: 50 - 130 + 15% of your ability power + 9% of your bonus health Proc Threshold: 90 - 250 postmitigation damage	Font of Life Impairing the movement of an enemy champion marks them for 4s. Ally champions who attack marked enemies heal for 5 + 1% of your max health over 2s.	Bone Plating After taking damage from an enemy champion, the next 3 spells or attacks you receive from them deal 30-60 less damage. Duration: 1.5s Cooldown: 45s	Unflinching Gain 10% Tenacity and 10% Slow Resist. These values increase by up to an additional 20% Tenacity and 20% Slow Resist based on missing health. Maximum value achieved at 30% health.
Domination	Zombie Ward Takedowns on enemy Wards cause friendly Zombie Wards to sprout from their corpses. Gain an adaptive bonus of 1.2 Attack Damage or 2 Ability Power for every Zombie Ward spawned, up to 10. After spawning 10 Zombie Wards, additionally gain 10 adaptive force. Zombie Wards are visible, last for 120s and do not count towards your ward limit.	Relentless Hunter Gain 5 Move Speed out of combat plus 8 per Bounty Hunter stack. Bounty Hunter stacks are earned the first time you get a takedown on each enemy champion.

AttackSpeed
+10% Attack Speed

Adaptive
+9 Adaptive Force

Armor
+6 Armor

Bard Starting Items (PROBUILD)

Spellthief's Edge

BUY: 400

SELL: 160

8 Ability Power
10 Health
50% Base Mana Regen
2 Gold Per 10 Seconds

Tribute: While nearby an ally champion, damaging Abilities and Attacks against champions or buildings grant 20 gold. This can occur up to 3 times every 30 seconds.

Quest: Earn 500 gold from this item to transform it into Frostfang, gaining Active - Warding.

This item grants reduced gold from minions if you kill excessive numbers of them.

Health Potion

BUY: 50

SELL: 20

Active - Consume: Drink the potion to restore 150 Health over 15 seconds.

You may carry up to 5 Health Potions.

Stealth Ward

BUY: 0

SELL: 0

Active - Trinket: Place a Stealth Ward on the ground that lasts between 90 - 120 seconds, is Invisible to enemies but grants your team vision of the surrounding area. Stores up to 2 Stealth Wards, generating a new Ward every 240 - 120 seconds.

Bard Recommended Items (PROBUILD)

Mobility Boots

BUY: 1000

SELL: 700

25 Move Speed

When out of combat for at least 5 seconds, increase this item's effect to 115.

Locket of the Iron Solari

BUY: 2500

SELL: 1750

200 Health
20 Ability Haste
30 Armor
30 Magic Resist

Active - Devotion: Grant nearby allies a 230 - 385 (based on ally level) Shield, decaying over 2.5 seconds (90s cooldown).

Consecrate: Grant nearby allied champions 5 Armor and Magic Resist.

Mythic Passive: Grants all other Legendary items 2 Armor/Magic Resist increase to Consecrate.

Strength of level-scaling effects are based on the ally's level.
Subsequent Devotion shields within 20 seconds only have 25% effect.

Dead Man's Plate

BUY: 2900

SELL: 2030

300 Health
45 Armor
5% Move Speed

Shipwrecker: While moving, build up to 40 bonus Move Speed. Your next Attack discharges built up Move Speed to deal up to 40 (+100% base Attack Damage) physical damage. If dealt by a Melee champion at top speed, the Attack also Slows the target by 50% for 1 second.

''There's only one way you'll get this armor from me...'' - forgotten namesake

Redemption

BUY: 2300

SELL: 1610

20% Heal and Shield Power
200 Health
15 Ability Haste
100% Base Mana Regen

Active - Intervention: Target an area within 5500 range. After 2.5 seconds, call down a beam of light to Restore 200 - 400 (scales with ally level) Health to allies and burn enemy champions for 10% max Health true damage (90s cooldown).

Item can be activated whilst dead. Damage and healing reduced by 50% if the target has recently been affected by another Intervention. Strength of level-scaling effects are based on the ally's level.

Chemtech Putrifier

BUY: 2300

SELL: 1610

55 Ability Power
20 Ability Haste
100% Base Mana Regen

Puffcap Toxin: Dealing magic damage applies 40% Grievous Wounds to champions for 3 seconds. Healing or shielding another ally will enhance both of you, causing the next damage to enemy champions to apply 60% Grievous Wounds.

Grievous Wounds reduces the effectiveness of Healing and Regeneration effects on the target.

Shard of True Ice

BUY: 400

SELL: 160

40 Ability Power
75 Health
100% Base Mana Regen
3 Gold Per 10 Seconds

Active - Ward: Place a Stealth Ward on the ground that is Invisible to enemies but grants your team vision of the surrounding area. Stores up to 0 Stealth Wards, which refill upon visiting the shop.

Active - Ward: Place a Stealth Ward on the ground that is Invisible to enemies but grants your team vision of the surrounding area. Stores up to 4 Stealth Wards, which refill upon visiting the shop.

Oracle Lens

BUY: 0

SELL: 0

Active - Trinket: Scans around you, warning against hidden enemy units, revealing invisible traps and revealing (and temporarily disabling) enemy Stealth Wards for 10 seconds (90 - 60s cooldown).

Elixir of Iron

BUY: 500

SELL: 200

Active - Consume: Drink to gain 300 Health, 25% Tenacity, and increased champion size for 3 minutes. While active, moving leaves a path behind that boosts allied champions' Move Speed by 15%.

Drinking a different Elixir will replace the existing one's effects.

Bard Active Abilities

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Q			Q	Q		Q		Q
	W						W		W		W	W
		E											E	E		E	E
					R					R					R

Passive	Q	W	E	R
Traveler's Call Meeps: Bard attracts lesser spirits that assist with his basic attacks to deal extra magic damage. When Bard has collected enough Chimes, his meeps will also deal damage in an area and slow enemies hit. Chimes: Ancient chimes randomly appear for Bard to collect. These grant experience, restore mana, and provide out of combat Move Speed.	Cosmic Binding Cooldown: 11/10/9/8/7 Consumable: 60 Range: 25000 Bard fires a missile which will slow the first enemy struck, and continue onward. If it strikes a wall, it will stun the initial target; if it strikes another enemy, it will stun them both.	Caretaker's Shrine Cooldown: 14 Consumable: 70 Range: 800 Reveals a healing shrine which powers up over a short time, disappearing after healing and speeding up the first ally that touches it.	Magical Journey Cooldown: 22/20.5/19/17.5/16 Consumable: 30 Range: 900 Bard opens a portal in nearby terrain. Allies and enemies alike can take a one-way trip through that terrain by moving into the portal.	Tempered Fate Cooldown: 110/95/80 Consumable: 100 Range: 3400 Bard sends spirit energy arcing to a location, putting all champions, minions, monsters, and turrets hit into stasis for a brief time.