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Bard
the Wandering Caretaker
SupportMage
Patch 7.3 · Support · Ranked · Sample · No public API · 17,758 games · Sample data
Role snapshot (Support)
ATier
- Win Rate
- 55.1%
- Pick Rate
- 6.2%
- Ban Rate
- 8.3%
17,758
Games
High
Confidence
Popular build
8,169 games55.5%Win Rate
Flash
ExhaustReliable build
5,860 games54.2%Win Rate
Flash
IgniteHigh observed win rate
2,131 games57.6%Win Rate
Flash
BarrierRunes
Sorcery
Scorch
Skill Order
Which ability to max first, and the level each point goes in — Bard's most common path.
QCosmic Binding
WCaretaker’s Shrine
EMagical Journey
RTempered Fate
Max Order
QWE
Max Q first, then W, then E. Take R whenever available (5 / 9 / 13).
Level-up Order
- QCosmic Binding
- WCaretaker’s Shrine
- EMagical Journey
- RTempered Fate
| Ability | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| QCosmic Binding | Q | Q | Q | Q | |||||||||||
| WCaretaker’s Shrine | W | W | W | W | |||||||||||
| EMagical Journey | E | E | E | E | |||||||||||
| RTempered Fate | R | R | R |
Matchup map (Support)
How Bard performs against enemy support laners
Levels 1 – 15 · Sample40%60%Bard's win rate
≥ 60%Very favorable
55 – 60%Favorable
50 – 55%Even
45 – 50%Unfavorable
40 – 45%Hard
Nobody in this lane sits here.
< 40%Very hard
Nobody in this lane sits here.
Conditional build matrix
Recommended items by enemy team composition
Sample · Patch 7.3
Core 1First major item
Core 2Second item
Core 3Third item
BootsBoot slot
SituationalPick as needed
Scaling — level 1–15
BardSupport average
1815
1815
1815
Counter plan — how to beat Bard
Track the roam — it is strongest where the enemy jungler already is
Dodge the primary — its rotation is one skillshot; sidestep it and the rest is chip
Punish the cooldown — Bard is exposed while its rotation is down
Ward the flank — vision is what turns its best opening into a worse one
Respect the spike — Riot rates the kit high difficulty, so a practised player gets more out of it than the average
Ability details
PTraveler’s Call
Passive — never cast
- Q
Cosmic Binding
- W
Caretaker’s Shrine
- E
Magical Journey
- R
Tempered Fate
ARAM performance
S
- Win Rate
- 52.3%
- ▲ 0.6%
- Pick Rate
- 7.6%
- ▲ 2.0%
- Ban Rate
- 3.4%
- ▲ 0.8%
Best ARAM build
Patch timeline
We hold the rates, not the balance log. What actually changed each patch is in Riot’s own notes.
- 7.3Live now-0.9
- 7.2eSample win rate across this patch-0.5
- 7.2Sample win rate across this patch0.0
- 7.1hSample win rate across this patch+1.1
- 7.1Sample win rate across this patch+1.0
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Methodology
- Data window
- 286,420 games on patch 7.3, Ranked, No public API. Last refreshed 25 Sept 2026.
- Rank aggregation
- No rank split. A derived sample has no brackets to pool, so none is claimed — the rates are the same sample at every rank.
- Role assignment
- A champion is filed under the lanes it actually plays, not the one class it belongs to — which is why several appear in two.
- Counters
- A matchup, not a tier gap: how this champion does into that one specifically, over that pairing’s own games.
- Minimum sample
- The confidence indicator beside every rate is driven by how much of the window this champion appears in. A low reading means read the figure loosely, not that it is wrong.
- Why a build is not a cause
- The best-scoring build is the one the best-placed players happened to take. Correlation is what a rate can show; it is not evidence that buying those items caused the wins.
- Where the numbers come from
- Names, titles, classes, difficulty and ability names are read off Riot's official Wild Rift site. Lanes are this site's filing; items and runes are Wild Rift's patch 7.3 shop and rune tree. Every rate is a derived sample — Riot publishes no Wild Rift API, and nothing on this page presents one as measured.
Bard on video
Published by League of Legends: Wild Rift on YouTube, 21 August 2025.
1 year old. League of Legends: Wild Rift has been patched since, so watch it for how the kit plays, not for numbers — the rest of this page is written for the current patch.
It plays in YouTube’s own player once you press play. Nothing is downloaded or re-hosted here, and nothing loads from YouTube until then.