Talk:Bard/@comment-4091261-20150531011308/@comment-8506165-20150812063638

" I've never understood why some people believe that a full tank support that does no damage is preferable to a support that actually does damage in teamfights. Going full tank with Bard just seems like a massive waste :\"

Why does anyone build tanky? It's because not everyone needs an obscene amount of damage to have a strong impact on fights. I could build Nautilus botlane full AP (his ratios are higher than Bard's, at that...) but it'd be suboptimal because he'd be liable to just die quickly without being able to make use of his obscene amounts of CC, and besides that most of the strong utility items are tanky in nature. Same thing goes for Bard. Why would I invest a huge amount into AP when meep+Q is only a 95% ratio over having the option for speedboosts, shields, AoE slows and strong auras that my team would otherwise lack, while also making it harder for me to get bursted before even using half my abilities?

Hell, why not just play LeBlanc support if high damage is what a support champ is meant to bring to the table? She can do it. It's not that great, bit cheesy really, but it works.