Stop building trailblazer, start building DOUBLE PANTS!
I've been theorycrafting a new bard build. Double winged moonplate rush. For 1600g you get 10% movespeed and 300 health. It stacks really well with the flat increase movespeed from swifties. After swifties, go moonplates, then finish a moonplate into warmogs for a total of 20% out of combat movespeed!
Why warmogs 1st?
- Warmogs gives the most movespeed for any tank item. If you thought trailblazer made you fast, try new warmogs, a criminally underbuilt item. This build tries to maximize the warmogs rush by making sure you have enough health for it to be online for the rush.
- There's a reason Riot wants to make warmogs 1st item difficult. The regen is crazy good as a first item. People don't have much %max health damage yet, so the health is a great defensive stat. The regen lets you play much more aggressive than you would otherwise.
- With all the movespeed, you can collect out-of-the-way chimes much faster, limiting the amount of time spent running around in random places. You get out of base faster and can join fights much faster than the enemy support.
- Much like Sejuani, Bard synergizes really well with the effect of warmogs. He can run in, use all his meeps and once he runs out, he disengages, regens all his HP and waits until his meeps are off-cooldown to harass again. Normally, Bard has to consider when he can harass an enemy with his slows to make sure he doesn't end up with a horrible HP trade. With this build, as long as the enemy can't CC and oneshot you, you can run up, use all your meeps, then back off and regen. It doesn't matter if you lose more HP than they do, any trade is a winning trade with warmogs.
Why double pants?
- For only 1600 gold you get as much movespeed as trailblazer for much cheaper.
- You need to hit the 1300 health threshold for warmogs.
- Stacks really well with swifties.
- You outspeed everyone early which results in a ton of survivability.
After warmogs, I like to go normal tank items like Frozen Heart, Kaenic, Jak'Sho, etc. You don't need to finish the second moonplate since you already have a lot of movespeed. Last item, finish moonplate into trailblazer and give your team all of your crazy movespeed