Talk:Bard/@comment-8506165-20150325045212/@comment-8506165-20150325212847

Building it late "before teamfights" means you have ~60AP for said teamfights because it hasn't had 10 minutes to reach its full stats. AP scaling utility tends not to be high enough in scaling to benefit too much from that; Soulstealer is a better bet if you want lots of AP for scaling seeing as you should be raking in the assists and not being heavily focused (I'm sure everyone knows about Mejai's Janna?), but if you just want the 60-80 then there are still better items: Twin Shadows, Banner of Command, Morellonomicon... all of which have useful actives/passives of their own and also provide CDR which is a key support stat that RoA totally lacks.

I don't see supports building RoA anywhere above low silver, and even there it's pretty rare.