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Bard

Support / Mage

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Bard 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.

Abilities
Traveler's CallPC
Passive - Traveler's Call

Innate - Ancient Chimes: Bard's presence causes sacred Chimes to appear at random locations on the map, 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, 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 35 (+ 10 per 5 Chimes collected) (+ 40% AP) bonus magic damage. * At 5 Chimes, Meeps slow damaged enemies by 25% - 75% (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 (based on level) Meeps at a time.

Cosmic BindingPC
Q - Cosmic Binding
Cost: 60 Mana
CD: 11 / 10 / 9 / 8 / 7
Cast Time: 0.25
Range: 850

Active: Bard fires an energy bolt in the target direction that deals magic damage to the first enemy hit and slow them by 60% for a duration.

Magic Damage: 80 / 120 / 160 / 200 / 240 (+ 80% AP)
Disable Duration: 1 / 1.2 / 1.4 / 1.6 / 1.8 seconds

After Cosmic Binding hits an enemy, the bolt continues behind them for 300 units. If the bolt hits terrain or a second enemy, it stun both targets for the same duration, dealing the same damage to the secondary target.

Caretaker's ShrinePC
W - Caretaker's Shrine
Cost: 70 Mana
Cast Time: 0.25
Range: 800

Active: Bard conjures a shrine at the target location that grants sight of its surroundings for 1 second and gathers power over 5 seconds. Up to 3 shrines may be active at a time. Shrines may last indefinitely until being consumed by a champion moving over them.

Minimum Heal: 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 / 125 (+ 40% AP)
Maximum Heal: 50 / 87.5 / 125 / 162.5 / 200 (+ 70% AP)
Bonus Movement Speed: 20 / 22.5 / 25 / 27.5 / 30% (+ 6% per 100 AP)

If the champion is an ally or Bard himself, they are heal for an amount based on the shrine's power and gain bonus movement speed decaying over 1.5 seconds. The bonus movement speed can stack with subsequent shrines triggered. If the champion is an enemy, the shrine is destroyed.

Bard periodically stocks a Caretaker's Shrine charge, up to a maximum of 2.

Magical JourneyPC
E - Magical Journey
Cost: 30 Mana
CD: 22 / 20.5 / 19 / 17.5 / 16
Cast Time: 0.25
Range: 900

Active: Bard opens a one-way magical corridor through a piece of terrain in the target direction for 10 seconds.

A champion can dash through the corridor by selecting it while within proximity of it, becoming standard sight during the travel. Bard and allies travel through the portal at 33% increased speed.

A valid piece of terrain within the target range is required to cast this ability. Magical Journey cannot be taken while immobilize or ground.

Tempered FatePC
R - Tempered Fate
Cost: 100 Mana
CD: 110
Cast Time: 0.5
Range: 3400
Effect Radius: 350

Active: Bard sends magical energy arcing to the target location, granting sight of the area during travel. Upon impact, it puts all units within into stasis for 2.5 seconds, as well as stun all enemy champions, minions, and turret struck for the same duration. Enemies hit are standard sight for the duration.

Epic monsters and turrets are affected by Tempered Fate despite being cc-immune.

Base Stats

Health: 630
Health Per Level: 103
Mana: 350
Mana Per Level: 50
Attack Damage: 52
AD Per Level: 3
Attack Speed: 0.658
AS Per Level: 2
Armor: 34
Armor Per Level: 5
Magic Resist: 30
MR Per Level: 1.3
Movement Speed: 335
Range: 500
Health Regen: 5.5
HP Regen Per Level: 0.55
Mana Regen: 6
Mana Regen Per Level: 0.45
Patch 25.21buff

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.
Patch 25.12buff

Movement speed increased.

Stats

  • Base movement speed increased to 335 from 330.
Patch 25.9change

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.
Patch 25.S1.1nerf

Traveler's Call

  • First Chime spawn time in Summoner's Rift reduced to 0:15 from 0:25.
Patch 14.20buff

Caretaker's Shrine

  • New Effect: Cast now has a forgiveness radius of 175 units.
Patch 14.15change

General

  • Bug Fix: Abilities SFX are no longer audible through the Fog of War.
Patch 14.9buff

Stats

  • Selection radius increased to 130 units from 88.8889007568359.
Patch 14.4change

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.
Patch 14.2change

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.
Patch 13.19change

Tempered Fate

  • Bug Fix: Stasis effect now properly disables Dragon ability to move.
Patch 13.18buff

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.
Patch 13.14change

Traveler's Call

  • Bug Fix: Enemies now properly can see chimes through the fog of war.
Patch 13.3change

Traveler's Call

  • Bug Fix: Location of chimes on the mini-map are not visible to all other players once more.
Patch 13.1change

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.
Patch 12.10change

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.
Patch 12.8buff

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.
Patch 12.1change

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.
Patch 11.21change

Traveler's Call

  • Undocumented/Bug Fix: Secondary targets hit by Meeps now trigger Runaan's Hurricane and Muramana effects.
Patch 11.10nerf

Passive base damage decreased.

Traveler's Call

  • Base damage reduced to 30 from 40.
Patch 10.25change

Traveler's Call

  • Bug Fix: Attacking a target multiple times with Meeps now properly reapplies Imperial Mandate.
Patch 10.16nerf

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.
Patch 10.12change

Traveler's Call

  • Bug Fix: Name and description are no longer missing in Death Recap.
Patch 10.9nerf

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.
Patch 10.5nerf

Passive chime damage decreased.

Traveler's Call

  • Damage per 5 chimes reduced to 12 from 15.
Patch 9.18change

Traveler's Call

  • Bug Fix: Meep cone attacks now properly break spell shields.
Patch 9.14change

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%.
Patch 8.17buff

Tempered Fate

  • Cooldown reduced to 110/95/80 seconds from 130/115/90.
Patch 8.10buff

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.
Patch 8.7change

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.
Patch 7.24buff

Stats

  • Base health regeneration increased to 7.5 from 5.4.

Traveler's Call

  • Meep base damage increased to 40 from 30.
Patch 7.22nerf

Traveler's Call

  • First Chime spawn time in Summoner's Rift reduced to 0:25 from 0:35.
Patch 7.15change

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.
Patch 7.7buff

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).
Patch 7.4buff

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%.
Patch 7.1change

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.
Patch 6.24change

General

  • Bug Fix: Snow Day Bard's singing VO during his dance animation is no longer delayed.
Patch 6.14change

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.
Patch 6.12nerf

Traveler's Call

  • Chime spawn rate reduced to 40 seconds from 50.
  • Initial spawn unchanged at 50 seconds.
Patch 6.7change

Magical Journey

  • Bug Fix: Traveling through Magical Journey no longer rarely takes you in the wrong direction.
Patch 6.1buff

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.
Patch 5.24buff

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.
Patch 5.17buff

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.
Patch 5.16buff

Stats

  • HP growth increased to 89 from 85.
Patch 5.9change

General

  • Fixed a bug introduced in V5.8 that prevented Shrines from being self-cast.
Patch 5.8buff

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.
Patch 5.7buff

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.
Patch 5.6buff

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.
Patch 5.5new

Bard added to League of Legends

General

  • New champion.