Who counters Bard in Wild Rift?

Bard's strongest Support counters in Wild Rift are Leona, Nautilus, Pyke, and Rakan. For example, Leona: Leona's Zenith Blade (3rd) reaches through poke and her Shield of Daybreak (1st) attack starts the stun chain once she arrives. Bard has healing shrines rather than a native shield, and his conditional Q (1st) stun can be difficult to line up after she has committed onto the carry.

Who is Bard good against in Wild Rift?

Bard is a favorable matchup into Sona, Soraka, Yuumi, Nami, and Milio in the Support role. For example, Sona: Sona is a stationary aura support with no answer to a pick, and her short range loses to your meep autos while your roams deny the calm lane her duo wants.

Who synergizes with Bard in Wild Rift?

The best duo partners for Bard Support are Ezreal, Sivir, and Caitlyn. For example, Ezreal: He farms safely alone while you roam for chimes and picks, and his poke follows your stun the moment you return. Magical Journey (3rd) plays into his love of angles.

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Bard Support Wild Rift Guide

Bard support counters include Leona, Nautilus, and Pyke. See the best build, runes, matchups, and game plan for Wild Rift Patch 7.3.

How to play

Look for a stun against a wall Your 1st ability stuns when it hits an enemy and then another target or a wall. Aim for enemies standing in front of either.
Roam when your teammate is safe Collect nearby chimes on your way to help another lane, without leaving your lane partner exposed.
Plan around your ultimate's delay Your ultimate briefly freezes everyone it hits, including allies. Use it to catch enemies or save a teammate, then prepare to act when the freeze ends.

Strengths

Chime gathering keeps him roaming, and a wall stun from fog starts fights the enemy never agreed to.
His shrines heal your duo and give a movement speed burst, letting you choose every engage and disengage.
Tempered Fate (Ult) can swing a whole fight: save a carry, freeze a diver, or zone an entire objective pit.

Weaknesses

Cosmic Binding (1st) only stuns after hitting terrain or a second enemy, but its first hit still applies a strong slow in open ground.
Magical Journey (3rd) is a terrain-dependent escape that enemies can follow, so Bard is easy to punish when no useful wall angle is available.
His roams leave the ADC alone in 1v1 windows, and a misplaced stasis can strand an ally or rescue an enemy.

Build Snapshot

Spectral Sickle Spellslinger's Shoes Black Mist Scythe Lich Bane Dead Man's Plate Stormsurge Cryptbloom Oceanid's Trident

Rune Setup

Electrocute Empowered Attack Chain Assault Zombie Ward Bone Plating Transcendence

Summoner Spells

Flash Must take. His stun needs a wall behind the target, and Flash is how he gets to the side of them where one exists. Ignite Take this for early kill pressure on the enemy bot lane, since kills there snowball your carry faster than anything else you can do. The Grievous Wounds also makes it strong into champions with a lot of healing. Heal Take this over Ignite when your carry needs to survive rather than kill. The move speed also helps them follow up on the stun he set up.

Bard Support Counters

Who counters Bard Support in Wild Rift (WR)? These champions beat Bard in the support matchup, with how each one wins. Learn to play around them or ban them in ranked.

Leona: Leona's Zenith Blade (3rd) reaches through poke and her Shield of Daybreak (1st) attack starts the stun chain once she arrives. Bard has healing shrines rather than a native shield, and his conditional Q (1st) stun can be difficult to line up after she has committed onto the carry.
Nautilus: Nautilus's hook removes the spacing your poke and roam game needs, and Bard's shrines heal rather than block crowd control. One landed hook can start a chain that a conditional Cosmic Binding (1st) stun may not interrupt in time.
Pyke: Pyke out-roams you, threatens picks faster than you set them up, and his grey health sustain recovers your poke damage while his execute punishes any chip on your ADC.
Rakan: Rakan engages on demand with a charged knockup and a dash your conditional stun cannot reliably answer, and he is mobile enough to dodge the Q (1st) you need to land.

Champions Bard Is Strong Against

Bard's best matchups in Wild Rift. Bard holds an edge against these picks in the support role, so look to press the advantage and contest objectives.

Sona: Sona is a stationary aura support with no answer to a pick, and her short range loses to your meep autos while your roams deny the calm lane her duo wants.
Soraka: Soraka can affect your roams with the global heal from Wish (Ult), so leaving lane does not remove all of her map impact. Bard's advantage is creating the pick with Magical Journey (3rd) and a wall stun before her local positioning can protect the target.
Yuumi: She cannot answer or follow your roams without leaving her host, and any moment she detaches she becomes a free pick for your wall stun or stasis.
Nami: Aqua Prison (1st) is Nami's only immediate stop on Bard's approach, while Magical Journey (3rd) and Meeps create roam angles her lane-bound sustain cannot follow. Enter from a wall so Cosmic Binding (1st) can stun against terrain, wait for the bubble to miss, and use Tempered Fate (Ult) to deny her Tidal Wave (Ult) counter-engage at the next objective.
Milio: Milio's ultimate can cleanse Cosmic Binding's (1st) stun after it lands, whether or not he saw the wall angle coming. Force that cooldown with repeated picks, or use Tempered Fate's (Ult) stasis to separate him from the ally he wants to cleanse.

Bard Support Synergies

The best duo partners for Bard in the Wild Rift support role. The Dragon lane is a 2v2, so queue with one of these picks to make the lane and the mid game much easier.

Ezreal: He farms safely alone while you roam for chimes and picks, and his poke follows your stun the moment you return. Magical Journey (3rd) plays into his love of angles.
Sivir: Her waveclear holds the lane while you wander, and On The Hunt (Ult) speeds the whole team onto the targets your stuns and portals catch.
Caitlyn: Her range and traps hold a frozen lane alone while you roam, and your stun sets up a free trap plus headshot whenever you play the 2v2.

Early Game

Read the lane before leaving for chimes. Poke with Cosmic Binding (1st) when the enemy lines up with terrain or another unit, then add a meep-empowered attack only if the return trade is safe. Place shrines early enough to charge and collect nearby chimes without leaving your carry in a long 1v2. Roam after the wave is safe or your carry recalls, ping the movement, and avoid entering an unwarded river alone while the enemy jungler is missing.

Mid Game

Mid game is when your roaming pays off. With chimes banked you move faster than anyone expects, so look for picks: a wall stun on an enemy walking through river without vision, or a portal that lands your jungler behind their backline at dragon. Ward objectives early and stun the first body that walks into the pit, since one landed Q (1st) before a dragon fight tilts the numbers your way. Keep shrines stocked near the objective so your team contests at full health with a speed burst ready. Hold stasis for the moment the fight actually turns: it can freeze the enemy engage mid-commit or save your ADC from a dive.

Late Game

Late game Bard is a roaming control piece who sets up ambushes. Keep chiming on the way to grouping so your speed stays high, scout the flanks, and look for the stun that catches a stray carry before the teamfight forms. Around Baron and dragon, your portals and walls let you flank or move your whole team into an angle the enemy cannot see coming. Tempered Fate (Ult) is your biggest contribution now: stasis the enemy hypercarry out of a fight you are losing, freeze a diver off your backline, or split their team in half so yours cleans up the stranded side. The risk scales with you, since one greedy roam or one stasis on the wrong target loses the game as fast as a good one wins it.

Teamfights

Your job is to start the fight from a flank or break theirs in two. Open with a wall stun on a high value target if the terrain lets the Q (1st) connect, then drop a shrine so your team can collapse with the speed burst. Hold Tempered Fate (Ult) as the swing it is: a good stasis can cut their engage off from their carries, save your ADC from focus, or buy the exact second your team needs to turn. Read the angles, because your stun needs terrain or a clustered body to land, and a Bard who whiffs the opener is a squishy with nothing left. Between roams, position to peel for your carry. An alive Bard threatening the next pick is worth more than a dead one who gambled a stasis.

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