PCBard was last buffed in Patch 25.21 (). Across 48 patches, Bard has received 18 buffs, 7 nerfs, 22 adjustments since release in Patch 5.5.
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We're pretty happy with Bard's current balance state but would like to open up some more options for him, namely in building AP items like Shurelya's, making him better at supporting his team when playing AP-heavy.
Caretaker's Shrine
- Minimum heal AP ratio increased to 40% AP from 30% AP.
- Charged heal AP ratio increased to 70% AP from 60% AP.
- Bonus movement speed AP ratio increased to 6% per 100 AP from 5% per 100 AP.
Tempered Fate
- Bug Fix: Corrected the layering of VFX when hitting elevated terrain.
Shan Hai Scrolls
- Bug Fix: Slow VFX from Traveler's Call no longer stops abruptly.
Traveler's Call
- First Chime spawn time in Summoner's Rift reduced to 0:15 from 0:25.
Caretaker's Shrine
- New Effect: Cast now has a forgiveness radius of 175 units.
General
- Bug Fix: Abilities SFX are no longer audible through the Fog of War.
Stats
- Selection radius increased to 130 units from 88.8889007568359.
Armor growth decreased, level 1 attack speed and attack speed ratio increased. Passive bonus damage increased. Q damage increased.
Stats
- Armor growth reduced to 5 from 5.2.
- Base attack speed increased to 0.658 from 0.625.
- Attack speed ratio increased to 0.658 from 0.625.
Traveler's Call
- Damage per 5 chimes reduced to 10 from 14.
- AP ratio increased to 40% AP from 30% AP.
Cosmic Binding
- Base damage reduced to 80/120/160/200/240 from 80/125/170/215/260.
- AP ratio increased to 80% AP from 65% AP.
Caretaker's Shrine
- Bug Fix: Preparation time of the shrine is now properly synced with the VFX of the ability.
- This also means the animation is no longer partially skipped when transitioning to the fully charged version.
- Bug Fix: Can no longer be cast without going on cooldown.
Tempered Fate
- Bug Fix: Stasis effect now properly disables Dragon ability to move.
Passive maximum Chime stacks increased, stack duration increased. W now stacks charges, cooldown increased, shrine charge time to full heal decreased.
Traveler's Call
- Movement speed duration increased to 20 seconds from 7.
- Maximum number of stacks increased to 10 from 5.
Caretaker's Shrine
- New Effect: Now stores 2 charges of the ability with an 18 second recharge timer.
- Bonus movement speed reduced to 20/22.5/25/27.5/30% from 30% at all ranks.
- New Effect: Bonus movement speed now scales with 5% per 100 AP.
- Shrine charge timer reduced to 5 seconds from 10.
- Cooldown reduced to 0 seconds from 14.
Traveler's Call
- Bug Fix: Enemies now properly can see chimes through the fog of war.
Traveler's Call
- Bug Fix: Location of chimes on the mini-map are not visible to all other players once more.
Caretaker's Shrine
- Bug Fix: Can no longer cast the spell twice in a row when targeting an ally and a location each in quick succession.
Stats
- Base health increased to 630 from 560.
- Health growth increased to 103 from 89.
- Armor growth increased to 5.2 from 4.
- Magic resistance growth increased to 1.3 from 0.5.
Caretaker's Shrine
- Minimum base heal reduced to 25/50/75/100/125 from 30/60/90/120/150.
- Maximum base heal reduced to 50/87.5/125/162.5/200 from 60/105/150/195/240.
Passive damage Meep scaling increased. W base maximum heal increased.
Traveler's Call
- Base damage increased to 35 from 30.
- Damage per 5 chimes increased to 14 from 12.
Caretaker's Shrine
- Maximum base heal increased to 60/105/150/195/240 from 55/95/135/175/215.
Traveler's Call
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where the Meeps would become targetable after he traveled through Hexgates.
Tempered Fate
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where it did not interact with Glacial Augment correctly.
Traveler's Call
- Undocumented/Bug Fix: Secondary targets hit by Meeps now trigger Runaan's Hurricane and Muramana effects.
Traveler's Call
- Bug Fix: Attacking a target multiple times with Meeps now properly reapplies Imperial Mandate.
Base health decreased. W maximum heal decreased.
Stats
- Base health reduced to 560 from 575.
Caretaker's Shrine
- Maximum base heal reduced to 55/95/135/175/215 from 70/110/150/190/230.
Traveler's Call
- Bug Fix: Name and description are no longer missing in Death Recap.
W movement speed reduced and cooldown increased. E cooldown increased.
Caretaker's Shrine
- Bonus movement speed reduced to 30% from 50%.
- Cooldown increased to 14 seconds from 12.
Magical Journey
- Cooldown increased to 22/20.5/19/17.5/16 seconds from 18/17/16/15/14.
Passive chime damage decreased.
Traveler's Call
- Damage per 5 chimes reduced to 12 from 15.
Traveler's Call
- Bug Fix: Meep cone attacks now properly break spell shields.
Stats
- Base health increased to 575 from 535.
- Base health regeneration reduced to 5.5 from 7.5.
Magical Journey
- Travel speed increased to 900 from 800.
- Ally bonus speed changed to 33% at all ranks from 10/20/30/40/50%.
Tempered Fate
- Cooldown reduced to 110/95/80 seconds from 130/115/90.
Cosmic Binding
- Bug Fix: Can no longer stun units against Powder Keg with his Cosmic Binding.
Caretaker's Shrine
- Mana cost reduced to 70 from 90.
General
- Bug Fix: No longer T-poses when laughing.
Magical Journey
- Bug Fix: Is no longer missing approach lines when clicking on Magical Journey to enter the portal.
Snow Day and Elderwood
- Caretaker's Shrine
- Bug Fix: No longer use base VFX when placing Caretaker's Shrine.
Bard Bard
- Magical Journey
- Bug Fix: Is no longer missing approach lines when clicking on Magical Journey to enter the portal.
Stats
- Base health regeneration increased to 7.5 from 5.4.
Traveler's Call
- Meep base damage increased to 40 from 30.
Traveler's Call
- First Chime spawn time in Summoner's Rift reduced to 0:25 from 0:35.
Snow Day
- General
- Bug Fix: Reattached a penguin's leg in recall and joke.
- Caretaker's Shrine
- Bug Fix: No longer has a higher volume level compared to his classic skin.
Traveler's Call
- Meep base damage is now 30 (+15 every 5 Chimes) from 30 to 460 (based on Chimes) (+20 every 5 thereafter).
- Meep slow changed to 25 to 75 (based on Chimes)% from 25 to 80 (based on Chimes)%.
- Meep AoE unlock requirement reduced to 15 Chimes from 25 Chimes.
- Meep AoE increased radius requirement reduced to 35 Chimes from 65 Chimes.
- Meep recharge time reduced to 8/7/6/5/4 (at level 0/20/40/55/70) (based on Chimes) from 8/7/6/5/4 (at level 0/35/75/105/125) (based on Chimes).
- Meep stock limit increased to 1 to 9 (based on Chimes) from 1/2/3/4 (at level 0/15/55/95) (based on Chimes).
Traveler's Call
- Base movement speed bonus when picking up chimes increased to 24% from 18%.
- Movement speed bonus per stack when picking up chimes increased to 14% from 12%.
- Maximum bonus movement speed at 5 chimes increased to 80% from 66%.
Cosmic Binding
- Bug Fix: Fixed a bug causing stun to last slightly longer than intended.
- Bug Fix: Fixed a few cases where the snowflake ground decoration on Snow Day Bard's Cosmic Binding stun appeared in weird places on certain champions.
General
- Bug Fix: Snow Day Bard's singing VO during his dance animation is no longer delayed.
Magical Journey
- Bug Fix: Restored the pathing indicator line that appears between clicking on Snow Day Bard's Magical Journey and entering it to become a penguin.
Traveler's Call
- Chime spawn rate reduced to 40 seconds from 50.
- Initial spawn unchanged at 50 seconds.
Magical Journey
- Bug Fix: Traveling through Magical Journey no longer rarely takes you in the wrong direction.
Traveler's Call
- New Effect: The 25 chimes milestone additionally makes the Traveler's Call 2 strike in a 150-radius area around the target. This is in addition to the cone behind them.
Traveler's Call
- Meep base recharge timer reduced to 8 seconds from 10.
Caretaker's Shrine
- Base AP ratio increased to 30% AP from 20% AP.
- Maximum AP ratio increased to 60% AP from 45% AP.
Caretaker's Shrine
- Mana cost reduced to 90 at all ranks from 100/105/110/115/120.
Magical Journey
- Cooldown reduced to 18/17/16/15/14 from 20/19/18/17/16.
Stats
- HP growth increased to 89 from 85.
General
- Fixed a bug introduced in V5.8 that prevented Shrines from being self-cast.
Traveler's Call
- Ancient Chimes no longer spawn in the enemy team's jungle before the 5 minutes mark.
- New Effect: Ancient Chimes experience increases by 1 per minute after the 5 minutes mark.
Caretaker's Shrine
- Tooltip now displays the current amount of active shrines.
Stats
- Base attack damage increased to 52 from 46.
- Base armor increased to 25 from 21.
Traveler's Call
- Ancient Chimes: mana restoration changed to (12% max mana) from 15 (+ 8% of missing mana).
- Meeps: spawn time reduced to 10/9/8/7/6 seconds from 12/11/10/9/8
Cosmic Binding
- Base magic damage increased to 80/125/170/215/260 from 80/120/160/200/240.
General
- Recommended items updated.
Cosmic Binding
- Base damage increased to 80/120/160/200/240 from 75/110/145/180/215.
- Cosmic Binding can no longer tether to unusual units such as Demacian Standard, Dark Sphere, Acceleration Gate, and Wards.
Magical Journey
- Cooldown reduced to 20/19/18/17/16 seconds from 26/24/22/20/18.
- Clicking on a Magical Journey's portal is now more forgiving.
- New Effect: Allies that go on a Magical Journey will grant Bard an assist on their kills for a short time afterwards.
- New Effect: Clones (such as those created by LeBlanc, Mordekaiser, Shaco and Yorick) can now be commanded to take a Magical Journey.
Tempered Fate
- Neutral Monsters will no longer have their health reset while under stasis.
