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Bard build, with receipts

What Bard ran in 60,107 Support ranked games on patches 16.1-16.12. Every line carries its own game count.

Banned in 2.6% of 1,102,922 ranked matches.

The finished core

• Dead Man's Plate then Bandlepipes then Locket of the Iron Solari: 55.0% over 1,156 games
• Dead Man's Plate then Bandlepipes then Liandry's Torment: 56.0% over 725 games
• Dead Man's Plate then Locket of the Iron Solari then Redemption: 59.3% over 675 games
• Dead Man's Plate then Locket of the Iron Solari then Bandlepipes: 53.1% over 631 games
• Dead Man's Plate then Liandry's Torment then Locket of the Iron Solari: 53.8% over 563 games

First finished item

• Dead Man's Plate: 51.6% over 23,902 games
• Bandlepipes: 49.8% over 6,078 games
• Locket of the Iron Solari: 50.7% over 5,022 games
• Liandry's Torment: 51.5% over 897 games

Boots

• Boots of Swiftness: 51.2% over 30,224 games
• Mercury's Treads: 52.7% over 3,225 games
• Ionian Boots of Lucidity: 50.7% over 2,776 games

Starting shop

• Health Potion + Health Potion: 50.6% over 37,301 games
• Health Potion: 49.6% over 1,331 games
• Control Ward: 47.2% over 386 games

Skill max order

• Max Q first: 51.2% over 55,874 games
• Max W first: 49.8% over 677 games

Runes

Most played full page: Electrocute — Domination: Cheap Shot, Deep Ward, Relentless Hunter + Sorcery: Celerity, Scorch; Attack speed / Adaptive force / Health scaling. 49.3% over 13,130 games.

• Electrocute: 50.8% over 53,321 games
• Guardian: 49.3% over 2,119 games
• Deathfire Touch: 47.5% over 1,910 games
• Unsealed Spellbook: 47.3% over 1,622 games

Rune trees

• Domination + Inspiration: 51.1% over 30,551 games
• Domination + Sorcery: 50.2% over 19,329 games
• Domination + Resolve: 51.1% over 3,503 games

Stat shards

• Attack speed / Move speed / Health: 50.6% over 22,885 games
• Attack speed / Adaptive force / Health scaling: 50.1% over 16,856 games

Summoner spells

• Flash + Ignite: 50.4% over 40,410 games
• Flash + Heal: 51.1% over 14,936 games
• Exhaust + Flash: 49.2% over 4,572 games

Win rates count the games where the item set got finished - the receipt for the completed build.