Talk:Bard/@comment-16064126-20150820025621

So, a lot of comments down below have been discussing whether Bard is a good champion. I think not. As a Support main, I bought him and his skin on release, and I am utterly underwhelmed.

Everything in his kit has its uses, but he is horribly unreliable and does not provide ANYTHING to teamfigts. His passive requires you to leave your ADC all alone while you wander about. This would be okay if he could actually help out mid lane (ya know, like Ali does), but in truth he can't. His Q is way too bad for a gank, and his W costs so much mana that all the mana you gained from your passive is lost (on that note, using E to roam about means you don't gain much mana)

So let's say he doesn't roam at much (even though he was designed to), and sits in lane like every other support. Well, for one, he was very little poke, with only his low damage Q and low damage meeps, and he'll go oom becuase his W costs half his mana bar. He brings only 1 hard CC (and his meeps barely count as CC), and he has no mobility in lane (again, his W cannot be used very often and this would be a terrible waste of mana)

Then, when teamfigts roll around your Q loses its luster as creeps are all over the place and it travels retry slowly, and one stun won't mean much to the tank intercepting it. Your W becomes even more useless here as it still drains half your mana bar and no longer provides much of a heal. Your E shines here more than in the landing phase when controlling objectives, but the fact that enemies can use it too mean it's dangerous to place down.

Now, his ult. his ult is extremely hard to land, which means it can and will often harm your team's situation even if you are good at landing it. It's better used as an Ohmwheker, and when an item replaces your ult, it is a sad day