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Choose Champion Build:

Snowfall on Judgment Day
The Human Equation
Distance Over Time
The Black Halo
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Runes:

Domination

Dark Harvest

Cheap Shot

Zombie Ward

Ingenious Hunter

Inspiration

Cosmic Insight

Future's Market

Bonus:

+10% Attack Speed
+9 Adaptive (5.4 AD or 9 AP)
+65 Base Health

Spells:

Flash

Ignite

Items

Snowfall on Judgment Day

Item Order

Full build

Champion Build Guide

Snowfall on Judgment Day

Item Sequence

Introduction

This was heavily inspired by Divine Vigilante by Bardjo on "10 builds and a cringe guide for drunk people playing Bard". It's a great guide and I truly recommend checking it if you haven't yet.

This build is based on killing your opponents using and .

Items

- is your first buy alongside . This will allow you to play more aggressively and get easier stacks. will be upgraded into later.

- is the firstcore item of the build. This is why you pick the Item Haste runes. Spam to get and stacks.

- are bought after , you should also have already stacked at this point.

- is your second full item. Keep in mind that and also work with it.

- is your third FULL ITEM. As soon as you upgrade the first one into , you should buy a second one.

- is always your last item. This is a good item for Bard overall and fits the build well.

Important comments

- will proc , , , and . This should deal a lot of damage.

- If you have up, will proc all your items and . Since enemies will be invulnerable for 2.5 seconds, won't do damage and will burn only for one tick. , and will deal full damage.

- This build was made for killing enemies with and , but keep in mind that you also deal a lot of damage with your passive and your Q .

- and are very strong power spikes. This is why you should always pick on the runes.

- The second could be upgraded into . Remember that this WILL reduce your damage and WILL make killing enemies with impossible. It's just a better item for combat.

The Human Equation

Item Sequence

Introduction

This is probably one of the strongest, yet one of the hardest builds in this guide.

This build is focused on buffing your entire team by proccing on multiple enemies with your passive .

Items

- is always your first buy (after boots). It increases your team's damage when you slow or immobilize an enemy. This works with your passive , your Q and also your ultimate .

- and should be the second and the third items depending on your team composition. These items only work on Bard because of your runes. You can proc on multiple enemies by abusing your passive's AOE (15 chimes, increased at 35). When allies attack enemies marked by they will get healed and buffed by and .

- is the last item. Since this build has a lot of mana regeneration, it will give you good stats. It also decreases the cooldown of your summoner's spells.

Important comments

- This build makes you want to auto attack enemies, but, at the same time, it makes you very squishy. This is why you should choose as your support item and and as your summoner's spells.

- work well with and . They will decrease your and cooldown by a lot.

- YOU also get buffed by and when you heal allies. buffs both you and an ally (abuse it).

- It is usualy better building before . If your team doesn't rely on auto attacks to deal damage and has good AP carries, building before should be better.

- fits the build perfectly. It is currently one of the weakest items in the game and I expect it to get buffed soon. The buffs should make the build even better.

- Take against poke and against engage supports.

- is optional. and are also possible.

Distance Over Time

Distance Over Time

Item Sequence

Introduction

Probably the strongest and the hardest build of this guide.

This is focused on building Movement Speed items. It is great for roaming and short trades, helps you deal damage and dodge all skillshots!

Items

- is the first item of the build alongside . This item has nice stats and a good active effect. It gives the AP and the Movement Speed that you need for this build.

- is the core item for this build. This allows you to go for short trades (Q + basic attack + passive), proc and run away.

- seems like a bad item at first, but it's cheap and gives you AP and Movement Speed. If you play this build correctly, it shouldn't be easy for your enemies to kill you. is the reason why this build is hard to play.

- is your last item. It also gives AP, Movement Speed and helps with the short trades. Since Bard's passive makes you want to auto attack a lot, building is always welcome.

Important comments

- This is a hard build to play. It might take some games for you to get used to it.

- You won't do much damage against tanks, try to always hit squishy enemies.

- Play around your Q cooldown. While fighting, go in, hit an enemy, press Q and go out.

- If you are full build and die, can be replaced by .

- Remember that you have a good amount of AP, your W should heal for a lot.

- is great for short trades, don't go .

The Black Halo

The Black Halo