Talk:Bard/@comment-10880231-20150717005255/@comment-25754870-20150721100411

Bard is an absolute beast support to carry with in solo que. If you want to play a baby sitter support, play Janna.

He will win trades against any bot lane with a melee support like Alistar or Braum. His power spike is L1, you can immediately start going agro. Just wait for the enemy ADC to last hit, snare - auto(meeps) - auto and you've just chunked them for >20% of their health. Sure, you can't just roam and leave your ADC. Wait for a buy timer, and then immediately roam mid. Collect a few meeps on  the way to get some speed (hopefully to 5 for the slow), port in for a pretty nasty gank. Then head back bot with the advantage. Rinse, repeat.

Later, with Righteous Glory, you can easily initiate a fight. Ult the carries, proc RG and get in position for a snare/follow up from you're team. One of the scariest engages in the game.

If you really think he is useless, than you're just not playing him right. Just look up streamers like Aphromoo and Krepo, they play bard often and will convert you :)