Talk:Bard/@comment-8506165-20150325045212/@comment-7837708-20150326001848

Isn't Rylai's a bit pointless on Bard? His Q already stuns longer then what Rylai's slows, and even if you only hit one target you already get a 60% slow. After 45 chimes you passive already slows for 45% and the extra slow from Rylai's becomes 12,5% (I'm not sure, correct me if I'm wrong). And as the game progresses your passive will slow more and more, and there's a limit to how low movement speed can go so after a while you won't even notice the extra slow. Even if you count that Rylai's slows for 0,5 seconds longer, it doesn't mean much since you usually get several passive procs on the same target, so that extra 0,5 seconds after all of that won't do much.

The health on it is nice though, but if you want AP there's a lot of items that gives it but with better stats, even Rod of Ages (which I personally wouldn't buy on a support) would probably be better. I usually build full support/semi-tank Bard though, instead of AP.