Support · 588 games · EUW

Bard

Support · 100% of games

Strongest when games end at 20–25 minutes (58%). On average ahead of the lane opponent at 15 minutes (+52 gold).

Win rate: 51.0%; ±4.0 · role avg 50.0%
Tier: B; #16 of 48
Pick rate: 9.1%; ban 9.7%
Games: 588; ranked solo/duo

Lane opponent

Any opponent

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Bard support wins 51.0% of 588 ranked games in EUW, rank 16 of 48 support champions (tier B). Most players finish Dead Man's Plate first, at about 13:24.

The build at a glance

What most Bard players run

Items 1–4: the most common path. Later items: the most common pick in the games that last that long, so fewer games.

Items, in buying orderEvery option, item by item →

Boots

Boots of Swiftness 12:42 · 48% of games

Item 1

Dead Man's Plate 13:42 · 67% · 379 games

Item 2

Locket of the Iron Solari 21:54 · 37% · 105 games

Item 3

Bandlepipes 28:18 · 40% · 12 games

Item 4 · late game

Kaenic Rookern 34:48 · 4 of 20 games

Runes

Electrocute · Domination + Inspiration 18% of games · 63% wins All runes →

Start

Health Potion 97% of games · 50% wins Other starts →

Spells

Flash + Heal 52% of games · 46% wins Other spells →

Skill order

Max Cosmic Binding first 94% of games · 52% wins Skill orders →

When Bard wins

Best when games end at 20–25′

Win rate by when the game ended. Faded: under 30 games. Icons: when each item is usually finished.

Ends before 25′53% wins35% of games · 204

Lasts 25′ or more50% wins65% of games · 380

Lanes

Watch out for Rakan, Alistar, Nami

Hard Easy Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Every opponent, minute by minute →

What wins Bard games

First Baron: 79% against 32%

Win rate when the team took it firstwhen it didn't Gap

First Baron 32% 79% +48

First tower 31% 73% +42

Rift Herald 39% 68% +30

First dragon 38% 65% +27

First blood 43% 60% +16

First Voidgrubs 48% 54% +6

Taking an objective goes with winning; it isn't the whole cause. First inhibitor is left out: it mostly means the game is already won.

How Bard plays

Less damage to towers, fewer multikills

What stands out (10% or more) against the average support. Blue: better for winning, red: worse.

Less damage to towers1031 against 1331 · −23%

Fewer multikills a game0.07 against 0.09 · −22%

Fewer minions a minute0.9 against 1.1 · −18%

More damage a minute431 against 368 · +17%

More share of team damage12% against 10% · +17%

About average: assists, kill participation, gold.

Build path

Item by item, with the clock

What players finish in each slot, and when. Pick items to follow a build: every column then shows only games that match your picks, and a picked item doesn't appear in another slot. Fewer games last long enough for items 5 and 6.

Item 1done ~12:48

Item 2done ~21:36

Item 3done ~28:24

Item 4done ~34:24

Most common full builds

Dead Man's Plate › Zeke's Convergence › Liandry's Torment › Mercury's Treads 76.9%13 games

Dead Man's Plate › Boots of Swiftness › Locket of the Iron Solari › Bandlepipes 50.0%12 games

Dead Man's Plate › Boots of Swiftness › Locket of the Iron Solari › Mikael's Blessing 71.4%7 games

Boots of Swiftness › Dead Man's Plate › Locket of the Iron Solari › Redemption 25.0%4 games

Boots of Swiftness › Mikael's Blessing › Dead Man's Plate › Locket of the Iron Solari 50.0%4 games

Dead Man's Plate › Boots of Swiftness › Locket of the Iron Solari › Knight's Vow 25.0%4 games

Each row stops where games ended or the next item was too rare to list on its own. Boots (dashed ring) sit where they're usually bought.

Adjust to their team

Items 2–4 against each team

Against teams with magic heavy damage

Abyssal Mask 86%7

Kaenic Rookern 82%11

Dead Man's Plate 71%14

Liandry's Torment 56%25

Redemption 55%11

Zeke's Convergence 52%21

Bandlepipes 50%14

Teams are grouped by their champions' usual damage, toughness, healing and crowd control, from all games.

Before the first back

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Health Potion + Health Potion50.4%570

Health Potion66.7%3

Health Potion + Health Potion + Refillable Potion66.7%3

Boots

Boots of Swiftness ~12:4250.4%284

Mercury's Treads ~15:5451.3%119

Plated Steelcaps ~15:2453.6%84

Summoner spells

Flash + Heal46.3%307

Flash + Ignite54.6%229

Exhaust + Flash61.2%49

Skills

Max

E51.6%554

Max

W39.3%28

Start

E51.4%518

Start

W39.5%43

Runes · 588 games

Laid out like the game: the most picked rune in each row is in colour. Hover or tap a rune for its name, description and numbers.

Domination · 51% win · 569 games

Keystones

100%51%

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98%52%

2%45%

<1%0%

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<1%60%

99%51%

52%55%

38%46%

10%53%

Inspiration · 50% win · 462 games

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97%51%

1%40%

1%50%

—

4%35%

56%48%

—

41%55%

4%48%

95%51%

2%45%

15%50%

79%51%

6%51%

59%49%

1%13%

39%55%

Most played pages

63%106 games

41%70 games

59%51 games

45%44 games

50%32 games

Hard lanes

Watch out for Rakan, Alistar, Nami

Easy lanes

Good into Janna, Blitzcrank, Rell

Every lane opponent · 10+ games

Ahead at 15 against 12 of 22, wins 7 of them

Expected: what Bard's and the opponent's overall win rates predict; the tick on each bar marks it. Rankings lean toward "even" until there are enough games.

Fewer than 10 games (12)

Zoe 75% · 8

Seraphine 50% · 8

Elise 29% · 7

Morgana 100% · 5

Amumu 40% · 5

Vel'Koz 40% · 5

Swain 0% · 4

Pantheon 75% · 4

Camille 100% · 3

Zyra 100% · 3

Taric 100% · 3

Tahm Kench 33% · 3

Bard vs Lulu · 52 games · Solid sample

Bard does worse than expected here

46%winsexpected 50%

−47gold at 15′average +52

−3.2minions at 10′ahead or behind

21%in on first bloodsolo kills +0.06 a game

Gold lead against Lulu Bard's average lead

Against Lulu, Bard is behind on gold at 15 minutes in 56% of games, and still wins 31% of those. When ahead, Bard wins 65%.

Ahead at 15′65% wins23 games

Behind at 15′31% wins29 games

Full Bard vs Lulu page · Coming soon

The rest of the game · 15+ games

Enemies that cost Bard games: Renekton, Wukong, Yone, Aphelios

Enemy top Trouble

Renekton27% · exp. 49% −2226 games

Ambessa43% · exp. 52% −928 games

Irelia42% · exp. 48% −619 games

Easier

Camille64% · exp. 50% +1425 games

K'Sante68% · exp. 55% +1422 games

Gangplank59% · exp. 48% +1117 games

Enemy jungle Trouble

Wukong35% · exp. 47% −1226 games

Diana41% · exp. 52% −1117 games

Lee Sin47% · exp. 52% −536 games

Easier

Talon71% · exp. 51% +2028 games

Sylas69% · exp. 51% +1826 games

Rek'Sai59% · exp. 44% +1517 games

Enemy mid Trouble

Yone33% · exp. 53% −1927 games

Yasuo38% · exp. 49% −1121 games

Sylas43% · exp. 51% −821 games

Easier

Zed74% · exp. 53% +2123 games

Galio65% · exp. 50% +1520 games

Aurora55% · exp. 51% +420 games

Enemy bot Trouble

Aphelios32% · exp. 54% −2231 games

Zeri44% · exp. 52% −832 games

Kai'Sa51% · exp. 55% −443 games

Easier

Lucian63% · exp. 50% +1319 games

Twitch67% · exp. 55% +1115 games

Jinx56% · exp. 50% +732 games

Points above or below what both champions' overall win rates predict. Only differences that hold up after leaning small samples toward "even" are listed.

Dies about as often as most supports, and more of it is ganks

Before 14 minutes Bard dies 2.5 times a game (average 2.6). 48% of those deaths involve the enemy jungler, against 45% for the average support. 10% are fair 1-v-1s.

2.5deaths per game before 14′about average (2.6)

48%involve the enemy junglermore than average (45%)

90%outnumbered (2+ enemies)about average (89%)

31%with no teammate nearmore than average (27%)

Deaths before 14 minutes. Gank: the enemy jungler got the kill or helped. Collapse: two or more enemies, no jungler. Alone: no teammate within about a screen.

Where Bard dies before 14 minutes

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

Ganks: 28% in your half of bot lane. Collapses: 47% in your half of bot lane. 1-v-1s: 32% in your half of bot lane.

Each square takes the colour of the most common kind of death there; brighter = more deaths. Red-side games are flipped, so the map always reads from the blue side.

Compared with the average support

What kills Bard

Kind of death

Bard Average

Gank 48% (avg 45%)Collapse 42% (avg 44%)1-v-1 10% (avg 11%)

Who gets the kill

Bard Average

Bot laner 35% (avg 41%)Jungler 27% (avg 25%)Support 15% (avg 15%)Mid laner 19% (avg 16%)Top laner 4% (avg 3%)

Gank clock

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00–7:00 and 8:00, then every minute

Bard Peak Average support

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Ward the river before 3:00, 5:00 and 8:00. From 10:00, keep vision up: ganks come every minute.

Deaths involving the enemy jungler, per 100 games, by minute. Narrow bars: Bard; wide light bars behind them: the average. Highlighted: the laning peaks.

Where Bard wins fights

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your jungle

Before 14 minutes: 2.7 kills per death in their half of mid against 0.2 in your jungle. Overall 0.5 kills per death.

Your half of bot lane 0.3 K/D 141 / 543

Their half of bot lane 0.8 K/D 220 / 277

The bot-side river 0.2 K/D 45 / 199

Your jungle 0.2 K/D 30 / 148

Their jungle 0.5 K/D 47 / 96

Their half of mid 2.7 K/D 90 / 33

Blue bars: kills, red bars: deaths. On the map, blue squares are where Bard wins more fights than they lose, red where they lose more.

At the team's dragonsWorth knowingNear 47% of their team's dragon takes (average support 48%). The team wins 66% when Bard is there and 73% when not.

Leaving laneNo clear difference yetFirst shows up in mid lane around 9:00 (average 10:00). Supports who get there by 14:00 win 51% against 44%; for Bard it is 51% against 52%.

Bard

What most Bard players run

Best when games end at 20–25′

Watch out for Rakan, Alistar, Nami

First Baron: 79% against 32%

Less damage to towers, fewer multikills

Item by item, with the clock

Most common full builds

Items 2–4 against each team

Start, boots, spells, skills

Starting items

Boots

Summoner spells

Skills

Watch out for Rakan, Alistar, Nami

Good into Janna, Blitzcrank, Rell

Ahead at 15 against 12 of 22, wins 7 of them

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Enemies that cost Bard games: Renekton, Wukong, Yone, Aphelios

Teammates that change Bard's games

Dies about as often as most supports, and more of it is ganks

Ganks and collapses both hit your half of bot lane

What kills Bard

Ganks come at 3:00, 5:00–7:00 and 8:00, then every minute

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your jungle

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your jungle

Wins fights in their half of mid, loses them in your jungle