Talk:Bard/@comment-6000082-20150315004626/@comment-6000082-20150315013201

The fact of the matter, in the end is - AD Carries carry games (let's be honest - they do). Atleast in most Gold division cases. Rarely do I see a top/mid player influencing the game as heavy as a good adc does. Sure, tanking up the damage, bringing utility, bursting enemies is great, but the main damage comes from the backline fired by, you guessed -  the carry. And that's what I'm most interested in - protecting that champion. There are champions out there who execute this tactic perfectly, such as the already named Thresh, Leona and Braum and those who require quite a bit of practice and/or mechanical play, such as Nami, Lulu, Morgana, Annie and many more (at least from my perspective). Bard, on the other hand has to utilize the positioning of the enemies which are either standing together, or facing a wall. So far, this seems quite a challenge to execute. Sure, the health packs are nice, but people (again, at least in Gold) are not yet fully familiar with his kit, so they simply either don't pick them up, or flame at you, for not immediately healing them (as Soraka does), instead of waiting a few seconds to be healed twice+ the amount. The utility of his E - Magical Journey, is very good, and quite fun to use. But when we take in mind his squishyness, and the general lack of his hard CC plus the threat of just going out there - it gets bad for Bard. Very bad. When we take in mind higher division games, where every passage of every jungle and/or river is being warded - picking a Bard into that can be very risky. Heck, even bronzies ward often nowadays. So yeah, my advice would be (or at least what I will do): play around with him with your friend carry, play around with some masteries (make him less squishy), play with his build options (frost queen or talisman?, righteous glory or aegis first and so on...), and most importantly: get people to get used to him and his kit! Good luck fellow players.

(Remember when I said I wouldn't get into detai? Well heck, I did, haha)