What are Bard's abilities?

Bard's kit: Traveler's Call (Passive), Q Cosmic Binding, W Caretaker's Shrine, E Magical Journey, R Tempered Fate.

What position does Bard play?

Bard is typically played in the Support and Mage roles.

Champions / Bard

the Wandering Caretaker

Bard

SupportMageDifficulty · High

Win rate

48.7%

Tier

CSupport

Pick

4.6%

Ban

2.1%

// What they do

// Abilities

Passive

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.

// Base stats at level 1Bar = against every champion

Health630

Attack dmg52

Armor32

Magic resist30

Move speed335

Range500

// Skins

9 total · in-game view

// Playing them · playing against them

As Bard

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!

Against Bard

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!

// Lore

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.

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At a glance

Released: 12 March 2015
Price: 2,400 BE · 880 RP
Range: Ranged
Adaptive type: Magic
Role: Catcher
Positions: Support

Basic attacksPlaystyleAbilities

Mode balance

ARAM · Damage dealt +15%
ARAM · Damage taken -15%
ARAM · Healing +20%
URF · Damage dealt +15%
URF · Damage taken -15%
URF · Healing +20%
Nexus Blitz · Damage taken -10%
Nexus Blitz · Ability haste +1900%
One for All · Damage dealt +15%
One for All · Damage taken -15%
One for All · Healing +20%
Ultimate Spellbook · Damage dealt +8%
Ultimate Spellbook · Damage taken -8%

Ability details

Innate - Ancient Chimes: Bard's presence causes sacred Chimes to periodically appear at random locations on the battlefield, lingering for up to 10 minutes. Collecting a Chime restores 12% maximum mana and grants Bard 20 + (1 per minute after 5 minutes) experience, as well as 24% bonus movement speed out of combat for 20 seconds, which stacks up to 10 times. Each Chime collected beyond the first instead grants an additional 14% bonus movement speed, up to a total of 150% bonus movement speed. Bard empowers his Meeps each time he collects 5 Chimes.
Innate - Meeps: Bard's presence attracts Meeps every few seconds, which are small spirits that come to his side. While he has Meeps, his basic attacks are empowered to each consume a Meep on-attack to deal 30 (+ 6 per 5 Chimes collected) (+ 40% AP) bonus magic damage.
* At 5 Chimes, Meeps slow damaged enemies by 25 – 75 for 6 (based on level) for 1 second.
* At 15 Chimes, Meeps deal the damage to enemies within 150 units of the primary target as well as those in a cone behind them.
* At 35 Chimes, the cone's radius increases.
Bard can have up to 1 – 9 for 9 (based on level) Meeps at a time.

Targeting: Passive
Damage type: Magic
Spell shield: Special
Projectile: True

Notes

Chime spawns are weighted towards the areas of the map that Bard is currently present in and spawn in pairs, with the only exception being the second and third spawns on Summoner's Rift, which spawn only one.
Chimes will not spawn in either team's base and will not spawn in the enemy team's jungle before the 5 minute mark.
The first Chime pair spawns at:
0:15 in all Summoner's Rift modes.
0:50 in all Howling Abyss modes.
The damage from Meeps:
Applies as spell damage on the primary target.
Applies as area damage on secondary target(s).
Meeps grant additional stacks of Electrocute and Conqueror.
Only Bard can see a Chime that is in the fog of war. All other players must have sight of a chime for it to be visible to them.
Only Bard can see a minimap icon for an uncollected Chime, regardless of whether other players have vision on it or not. The minimap icon will turn red when the chime is one minute away from expiration.
Bard cannot see Chimes while nearsighted.
Only Meep cone attacks are absorbed by spell shields. Those that deal damage together with the basic attack don't.
If a Meep empowered auto attack is dodged, blocked or when Bard is blinded, the basic attack itself will deal no damage, but the Meep damage will still be applied.
The empowered attack will not trigger against structures and wards.

This page uses material from the Bard article on the League of Legends Wiki, and that material is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Bard

// Abilities

Traveler's Call

// Skins

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