Support Bard Build
Support Bard build with runes and items. Support Bard guide offers in-depth how-to play, skill order and tips. Play Support Bard build in League of Legends Patch 14.19!
Updated: 2024-05-17 ()
TLDR
Starting items
Quick Skill Order
W
Q
E
Final items
Quick Runes
Summoner spells
Support Bard Runes
Sorcery
Resolve
Passive
How it works
Support Build specific
- You support your Team providing Healing, Shielding and various Buffs.
- You rush Moonstone Renewer.
- You can peel from your carries with Exhaust.
How to play
Support Build specific
- You need to adapt in the game to your team and to the enemy team.
- Your team needs to engage? Get items like Shurelya's Battlesong or Trailblazer.
- Your team getting poked to death? Consider getting Redemption AND/OR Locket of the Iron Solari
- If you are just getting poked and cannot manage to stay alive - get Kaenic Rookern or Warmog's Armor (caution: needs enough HP!)
- You have tanks, bruisers and your team lack damage? As a last resort, you can buy few items to even help with that!
- Remember to counter an enemy team. For example, if they have lots of healing, get Oblivion Orb early.
Tips and Tricks
General
- Collecting chimes is essential. It improves your damage and Passive effects, gives mana and movement speed. Do it!
- Low on mana? Collect some chimes.
- Use your W. Put it somewhere behind your team, so they can use it when needed and enemy can't destroy it. Let it charge for increased Healing.
- You can have 3 Ws at the same time. You can leave 2 Ws behind your team for healing.
- You have great engaging tool with your R. Play with your team and do not wait for 'special moment'. You can land great Rs, catching people off and making engagements possible.
- Identify the best targets for your Ultimate. Is there an enemy who lacks mobility? That's a good target. Sometimes you can use it for disrupting fights. Or for protecting your allies. Be mindful!
- E is an interesting tool that you can use in ARAM. You can aggressively E into an enemy team or play mind games with them.
Riot
- 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!
Skill Order
- Cosmic BindingQ
- Caretaker's ShrineW
- Magical JourneyE
- Tempered FateR
Items
Starting items
Boots
For mana problems
Rush this
Good support items
Counter poke
For engage
Situational items
Counter healing
Situational dmg items
For survivability
For the last fight
Example final build