Bard ARAM Mayhem Build

The Wandering Caretaker. A below-average pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: #159 of 173 champions.

CPatch 26.21SupportMageNo runes in Mayhem

Tier: C
Win rate: 45.9%
Pick rate: 1.2%
Rank: #159 of 173
Games: 279,861
Patch: 26.21

How to play Bard in ARAM Mayhem

Bard is a below-average pick in ARAM Mayhem on patch 26.21: tier C, #159 of 173 champions, with a 45.9% win rate over 279,861 games. Few players take it (1.2% of games), so enemies will rarely know the matchup well. Riot rates it 9/10 for difficulty, so give it a few games before you judge it.

72% of Bard's damage to champions is magic, so enemy magic resist is what slows it down. It keeps its team alive with 4,294 healing on teammates in an average game; stay behind your frontline and save it for the fights that matter. With 51 seconds of crowd control per game it is one of the team's main sources of lockdown. It dies only 8.8 times per game on average, fewer than most.

The AP build, ability power items, is both the most played and the top-ranked path: Luden's Echo, Lich Bane and Rabadon's Deathcap, with a 47.0% win rate over 71,977 games. For boots, Sorcerer's Shoes are both the most bought and the top-ranked pair.

The cards that do best on Bard are Wooglet's Witchcap, Back To Basics and Mercy's Strike. Cards built around healing yourself fill most of the top of its list, followed by attack speed and on-hit. Skip Porcupine and Pinball when you can: they do worst on Bard. A pair to look for: Tank Engine with Lich Brain.

Take Flash and Ghost (55% of players). Max Q (Cosmic Binding) first, then W, then E.

Bard ARAM Mayhem build

ARAMKit groups every Bard game by build path. The top-ranked path comes first, with the items most players start with, buy first and add later.

AP build · top ranked

47.0% win rate · 31% of Bard games · 71,977 games

Start

Lost Chapter

Core items, in buying order

Luden's Echo
Lich Bane
Rabadon's Deathcap

Boots on the AP build for Bard, top ranked first, with the share of players who buy them
Boots, best first	Players
No boots	27%
Sorcerer's Shoes	59%
Berserker's Greaves	3%

Situational, after the core

Shadowflame39% buy it
Void Staff14% buy it
Nashor's Tooth22% buy it
Stormsurge7% buy it
Rapid Firecannon12% buy it
Statikk Shiv6% buy it

Other build paths

Other Bard build paths with share of games, win rate and core items
Path	Games	Win rate
SupportSword of Blossoming Dawn, Whispering Circlet, Dawncore	2.2%	51.0%
CritHeartsteel, Statikk Shiv, Rapid Firecannon	0.3%	38.9%
TankHeartsteel, Warmog's Armor, Rapid Firecannon	0.6%	35.4%
HybridStatikk Shiv, Luden's Echo, Rapid Firecannon	2.6%	41.9%

Games: the share of all Bard games that went this way.

Most bought items

Statikk Shiv46% of games
Nashor's Tooth42% of games
Lich Bane42% of games
Luden's Echo40% of games
Rapid Firecannon25% of games
Berserker's Greaves24% of games
Blade of The Ruined King23% of games
Sorcerer's Shoes22% of games
Rabadon's Deathcap21% of games
Guinsoo's Rageblade18% of games

Best augments for Bard

Every card with enough Bard games, by tier and best first within each tier. Tiers are Bard's own: a card can be S tier here and C tier on another champion. As Riot's policy asks, cards are shown by tier and order only, never with a win rate. Click a card for its own page; the augment tier list ranks them over all champions.

PrismaticBest prismatic cards

GoldBest gold cards

SilverBest silver cards

1ADAPtTier S
2FruitifyTier A
3ZealotTier A

S- and A-tier cards for Bard

7 S tier and 38 A tier, best first.

The S- and A-tier augments for Bard in ARAM Mayhem, best first, with their rarity and what they do
Augment	Rarity	Tier	What it does
Wooglet's Witchcap	Prismatic	Tier S	QUEST: Possess Rabadon's Deathcap and Zhonya's Hourglass. REWARD: Get Wooglet's Witchcap.
Back To Basics	Prismatic	Tier S	Your Ultimate Ability is sealed. Gain 35% Ability Damage, Healing, Shielding, and 70 Ability Haste.
Mercy's Strike	Gold	Tier S	After healing or shielding your ally with selected ability, your next basic attack gains 300 bonus attack range, 75% attack speed and deals…
Totentanz	Prismatic	Tier S	Replace a Summoner Spell with A Dance with Death. A Dance with Death: Become Unkillable for 5 seconds and blink forward. If you get a…
ADAPt	Silver	Tier S	Convert Bonus Attack Damage to Ability Power, and gain (15%) Ability Power. Converts at a rate of 1.67 Ability Power per point of Attack…
Wee Woo Wee Woo	Gold	Tier S	Gain up to 50% Move Speed toward nearby allies based on their missing Health. Your healing and shielding are also increased up to 50% based…
Weapon of Destiny	Gold	Tier S	Your first Legendary Item becomes the Weapon of Destiny. When a champion you damaged within the last 3 seconds dies, increase the Weapon of…
Urf's Champion	Prismatic	Tier A	QUEST: Score 18 takedowns. REWARD: Gain The Golden Spatula.
The Boom and the Bass	Gold	Tier A	After casting an Ability, your next Attack within 6 seconds is faster, deals Melee (50–200 (by level) +50% Bonus Attack Damage+30% Ability…
Fruitify	Silver	Tier A	Scoring a Takedown causes the slain champion to explode into 3–6 (by level) Fruit. Fruit restores 6% of your maximum health and restores 6%…
Upgrade Sword of Blossoming Dawn	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 100% Attack Speed. Increase Sword of Blossoming Dawn's healing to 250% when you attack enemy champions.
Giant Slayer	Prismatic	Tier A	Become tiny, gain 20% Movement Speed, and deal between 10% and 30% bonus damage to champions based on how much larger they are than you.
Warlock Juicebox	Gold	Tier A	Gain (10%+3.5% Ability Power) Omnivamp.
Marksmage	Gold	Tier A	Your Attacks deal an additional (75% Ability Power) physical damage.
Hand of Baron	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 25% Adaptive Force. Nearby allied minions are greatly empowered.
Enchanting Butterflies	Gold	Tier A	Healing or Shielding allied champions gathers Butterflies around you. After collecting 7 Butterflies, damaging an enemy champion fires all…
Heavy Is The Crown	Gold	Tier A	Gain 10 Attack Damage, 25 Ability Power, and increase your Bonus Attack Damage, Bonus Ability Power, and Total Attack Speed by 10%. Decrease…
Titan's Resolve	Prismatic	Tier A	Dealing and receiving champion damage grants you 1 stack of Juggernauting for 6 seconds. For every 10 stacks of Juggernauting you gain 25–75…
Zealot	Silver	Tier A	Gain (25%+5% Ability Power) Critical Strike Chance and (35%+5% Ability Power) Attack Speed.
Don't Blink	Silver	Tier A	Gain 1% bonus damage per 10 Movement Speed more you have than the target.
Mad Scientist	Prismatic	Tier A	On each Revive, you grow large (gaining 30% Adaptive Force and 20% Health) or tiny (gaining 70 Ability Haste and 40% Movement Speed).
Upgrade Stormsurge	Gold	Tier A	Stormsurge's Squall now always detonates in an area, dealing (10%+2% Ability Power) maximum Health magic damage to all nearby enemies. Enemy…
Sonata	Gold	Tier A	Every 10 seconds, automatically cast the Aria of Perseverence and Song of Celerity in an alternating melody. Aria of Perseverence heals…
From Beginning To End	Gold	Tier A	Gain the First Strike and Dark Harvest Keystone Runes. First Strike: When you initiate champion combat, deal 10% extra damage for 3 seconds…
Leg Day	Silver	Tier A	Gain 50 Movement Speed and 50% Slow Resist.
Ocean Soul	Silver	Tier A	Gain the Ocean Soul, granting high Health and Mana Regen after damaging enemies.
Goldrend	Prismatic	Tier A	Damaging a champion with Attacks or Abilities deals an additional (50–150 (by level) +20% Ability Power +40% Bonus Attack Damage) magic…
Ominous Pact	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 75–150 (by level) Ability Power, 50% Movement Speed, and 20% Omnivamp based on missing Health. Spell casts cost 5% of your current…
Phenomenal Evil	Gold	Tier A	Permanently gain 1 Ability Power when you damage enemy champions with Abilities. If taken as your second Augment, starts with 40 Ability…
BEES!!!	Gold	Tier A	Every 15–10 (by level) seconds, your next Ability hit against an enemy champion throws a beehive at the target. Upon arriving, the hive…
Slap Around	Silver	Tier A	Each time you Immobilize or Ground an enemy, gain a stack granting 10 Adaptive Force. Lose 50% stacks on death.
Tooth Fairy	Gold	Tier A	When you deal more than 25% of an enemy champion's Health in less than 2.5 seconds, they drop a Tooth. 4 seconds cooldown per target
Escape Plan	Silver	Tier A	Gain a massive (65% Max Health) decaying Shield, decaying 150% Movement Speed, and a decaying shrink effect upon reaching 35% Health (75…
Protein Shake	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain Heal & Shield Power (25+35% Bonus Armor+35% Bonus Magic Resist)% Heal and Shield Power based on bonus Armor and Magic Resist.
Upgrade Sheen	Gold	Tier A	Your Spellblade effects deal additional damage equal to 4% of the target's health and heal you for 3.5% of the target's health…
Big Brain	Gold	Tier A	Gain a (300% Ability Power) Shield. Resets on death or 70 seconds after depletion.
Forged By The Master	Silver	Tier A	Your Item and Augment damage are increased by 45%.
Windspeaker's Blessing	Prismatic	Tier A	Your Healing and Shielding also increases the target's Armor and Magic Resist by 30–60 (by level) for 3 seconds.
Homeguard	Silver	Tier A	Gain 100% Movement Speed, disabled for 6 seconds after taking damage.
Shrink Engine	Gold	Tier A	Takedowns grant a stack that makes you 4% smaller, grants 8 Ability Haste, and 1% Movement Speed. Lose 65% stacks on death…
Upgrade Zhonya's	Silver	Tier A	Reduce Zhonya's Hourglass Cooldown to 45 seconds. You can now move when in Zhonya's Hourglass, Seeker's Armguard, or Wooglet's Witchcap…
Transmute: Gold	Silver	Tier A	Gain a random Augment Tier Gold Augment.
Donation	Gold	Tier A	Receive 1750 Gold. Thanks chat!:)
Tank Engine	Gold	Tier A	On takedown, gain a stack that grants 5% increased size and 5% max Health. Lose 65% of stacks on death.
Transmute: Chaos	Prismatic	Tier A	Gain 2 random Augment Tier Augments.

Average on Bard
60 cards, best first

Below average on Bard
33 cards, best first

Weakest on Bard
15 cards, best first

Best first augment for Bard

Your first card decides the early fights, and a card that is great as a first pick can be a weak fourth. ARAMKit ranks Bard's cards for each pick on its own; these are the top five per pick, with their tier in that pick. For the first pick, Totentanz, Back To Basics and Wooglet's Witchcap come out on top.

The best augments for Bard in each pick of an ARAM Mayhem game, best first, with their tier in that pick
#	First pick	Second pick	Third pick	Fourth pick
1	TotentanzTier S	Back To BasicsTier S	Hand of BaronTier S	ADAPtTier S
2	Back To BasicsTier S	Wooglet's WitchcapTier S	Wee Woo Wee WooTier S	HellbentTier S
3	Wooglet's WitchcapTier S	Giant SlayerTier S	Mercy's StrikeTier S	Mercy's StrikeTier S
4	Mercy's StrikeTier S	ADAPtTier S	Back To BasicsTier S	Omni SoulTier S
5	Urf's ChampionTier S	Mercy's StrikeTier A	ADAPtTier S	Back To BasicsTier S

Strong card pairs

Two cards that do especially well together on Bard, best pair first.

Summoner spells and skill order

Summoner spells

Flash + Ghost55% of players · 47.0% win rate
Flash + Barrier2% of players · 46.7% win rate
Flash + Mark37% of players · 44.9% win rate

Skill order

QCosmic Binding
WCaretaker's Shrine
EMagical Journey

Max Q first. 85% of players use this order (47.1% win rate); put points in R whenever you can.

Bard in an average Mayhem game

Averages per game over every game on this patch.

K / D / A: 7.7 / 8.8 / 29.2
KDA: 5.14
Damage to champions: 29,518
Damage taken: 33,055
Self-mitigated: 18,388
Healing on allies: 4,294
Shielding on allies: 89
Crowd control: 51 s
Kill participation: 69%
Game length: 16:46

Damage type

Physical 24%Magic 72%True 4%

Questions and answers

What is the best Bard build in ARAM Mayhem?

On patch 26.21 ARAMKit ranks the AP build first for Bard: Luden's Echo, Lich Bane and Rabadon's Deathcap. It is also the most played build.

What are the best augments for Bard in ARAM Mayhem?

The S-tier cards for Bard, best first: Wooglet's Witchcap, Back To Basics, Mercy's Strike, Totentanz and ADAPt. The full list by tier is on this page.

Is Bard good in ARAM Mayhem?

Bard is tier C on patch 26.21, #159 of 173 champions, with a 45.9% win rate over 279,861 games. That makes it a below-average pick in ARAM Mayhem right now.

What is the best first augment for Bard in ARAM Mayhem?

For Bard's first pick on patch 26.21: Totentanz, Back To Basics, Wooglet's Witchcap, Mercy's Strike and Urf's Champion, best first. Cards rank differently in later picks; the table on this page has all four.

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ARAM Mayhem tier list
Every champion by tier on patch 26.21.
ARAM Mayhem augment tier list
Every card from S to D over all champions.
All Mayhem builds
Pick a champion from the full list.
ARAM Mayhem rules
Augment levels, rerolls and why there are no runes.
ARAM Mayhem guide
How the mode, the cards and the picks work.
Bard counters
Its lane matchups on Summoner's Rift.
ARAM Mayhem overlay
The card picker and build in the app.

Source: ARAMKit, used with permission. Patch 26.21, 23,177,263 ARAM Mayhem games, data of October 28, 2026. Riot keeps Mayhem games out of its public match API, so these aggregates come from ARAMKit. Card tiers are shown without win rates, as Riot's developer policy asks.