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S.A.D. HELLSONG, the bard from hell
Songs for your party, Hell for the DM

The build is simple Flying tiefling Hexblade Warlock 1 (or 3), Lore Bard X
Stats: Char > Dex > Con > whatever (note that flying tiefling is a option for any tiefling, with or without "feral" stats replacement
Feats: Char, Warcaster, ritual caster. Optional: Lucky, Spell sniper, Inspiring leader
Spells Warlock: Eldritch blast, booming blade or green flame blade, shield, hex or armor of agathys,
Bard, Vicious mockery, friends, feather fall, healing word, hypnotic pattern, invisibility, heat metal, silence, counterspell, conjure animals

Build summary
This build has a lot of room for customization and maintain his strengths as debuffer.
With vicious mockery (action), hypnotic pattern (con, action), heat metal (conc, bonus action), silence (conc), cutting words (reaction) and counterspell (reaction) you can lock down virtually anything you may face. BBEG Heavy warrior? Heat metal on his armor, cutting words and kite him flying. BBEG Caster? Silence, hex (disavantanje on dex checks) and grapple him, or counterspell as needed, or use cutting words to make his "disintegrates" "failtegrates"

Also, you can fill any other role.
Tank. 18 AC with breastplate, shield and +2 dex. With "shield" spell and cutting words you can reach AC23 easily, without magic items. Armor of agathys gives you extra HP that scales greatly with a full caster spare spell slots.
Melee Warcaster, booming blade, hexblade curse (crit on 19+) and charisma to melee, you can dish some good damage without investing any resources. Spell sniper allows to use a whip, for the same damage and safer reach (move to 10, booming blade the enemy, and move back. Now the enemy stays still, or triggers the BB extra damage). And with warcaster and magical secrets, you can get paladin smite spells for crits.
Range Eldritch blast with agonizing blast from a safe flying distance, thanks to spell sniper.
Healing With your talent to negate enemy hits, you don't need so much healing, but healing word for emergencies is enough. Song of rest gives extra restoration. And you still have 6 more magical secrets for healing spirits if you really need them
Skillmonkey You are a bard. You have 3 skills, 3 more from lore bard, and 2 from background, and expertise. I suggest Criminal background, for extra tools proficiency.
Spellcaster You are a full spelcaster, with a free 1st level slot per short rest. You can even use any spell from any other class. Nobody else can do it better than you. But thanks to ritual caster, you can cast even more utility spells
Blasting You can learn fireball just for fun... Because you have fire resistance and proficiency on dex saves, so casting fireball just on you to burn all those enemy melee suckers is a viable tactic.
Scouting You can cast invisibility and fly You have proficiency in perception (or at least, you should). You can cast find familiar from ritual caster. All the bases covered here.
Minion-mancy Geas, animate objets, summon X, find familiar, summon grater steed... all of them are at your reach.


For extra fun, invest all you money in an Axe-guitar, so you can use your music instrument as spell focus and rock as hell.

I'm currently playing a similar Bard/Hexblade, but I'm using College of Swords, and boy is it fun to play. You can do nearly anything and go anywhere on the battlefield, it's crazy versatile.