How to beat Bard

Common role: Support

A wandering caretaker with map-wide portals and a reality-freezing ult.

What makes Bard dangerous

Bard stuns you against walls (Q), roams constantly collecting chimes, opens portals through terrain for cross-map plays, drops healing shrines, and his ultimate freezes everyone (and everything) in a zone — setting up dives or stealing objectives.

How to play against Bard

• 1Punish his ADC when Bard roams — trade tempo for tempo.
• 2Don't line up with walls or minions — that's his Q stun setup.
• 3His ult also freezes towers and objectives — expect Baron/dive plays.
• 4Step on his shrines to deny the heal charge-up.

Weaknesses to exploit

• ✓His lane presence is weak when chimes pull him away.
• ✓Q needs a wall or second target to stun — deny the geometry.
• ✓The ult is neutral: it can save YOU or freeze his own team.
• ✓Squishy and cooldown-bound in straight 2v2s.

Abilities & how to counter them

What each of Bard's abilities does — and how to play around it.

• P
  旅人の呼び声

  ミィプ: ミィプと呼ばれる精霊を呼び寄せて通常攻撃を支援させ、追加魔法ダメージを与える。一定数のチャイムを集めると、ミィプの攻撃が範囲攻撃になり、命中した敵にスロウ効果も与えるようになる。いにしえの鐘: 古代のチャイムがランダムに出現し、回収するたびに経験値を獲得して、マナが回復するほか、非戦闘時の移動速度が増加する。

  Strong: chimes power his poke and give roaming value. Weak: chime greed empties his lane — punish the ADC 2v1.

• Q
  宇宙の法則

  魔法のエネルギーを発射し、最初に命中した敵にスロウを与える。貫通したエネルギーが壁に当たった場合は最初の対象が、別の敵ユニットに当たった場合は両方の対象がスタン状態になる。

  Strong: stuns through a minion or against walls. Weak: needs the geometry — stand free of walls and it's just a slow.

• W
  回復の遺物

  体力を回復する遺物を出現させる。遺物は短時間徐々に効果が増大し、最初に触れた味方の体力を回復して移動速度を増加させると消滅する。

  Strong: healing shrines sustain his lane and roams. Weak: shrines charge over time — step on them early to deny full value.

• E
  精霊の旅路

  付近の地形に一方通行の魔法のトンネルを出現させる。敵も味方も同じようにトンネルを通り抜けられるが、レベルに応じて味方が通り抜ける速度は増加する。

  Strong: portals through walls move his whole team unexpectedly. Weak: enemies can use them too — follow through and collapse.

• R
  運命の調律

  精霊の魔力を放つ。魔力は放物線を描いて飛んでいき、着弾と同時に範囲内のすべてのユニットとタワーをしばらく停止させる。

  Strong: freezes everyone in a zone — dives, saves, objective steals. Weak: it protects targets too (stasis) — sometimes it saves YOU.

Itemization

Trade aggressively while he roams; watch portal flanks. His ult freezes allies too — sometimes walking INTO it saves you.

This guide covers Bard's core kit and playstyle — advice that holds up across patches.