Talk:Bard/@comment-26251295-20150420153537/@comment-6281696-20150420164714

Meh numbers-wise he's sorta fine, or well he's not worse of than other supports so "fine"...

Issue is mostly his base movementspeed being oddly low for a roaming character and his passive has a increadibly weird power curve due to chimes giving damage, utility, CD and charges. It just makes him feel really weird, especially when he falls behind. Also, if he falls behind he is screwed because once the enemy controls the map he basicly can't gather the chimes anymore, unlike say Thresh who can at least gather some souls even if he's losing badly.

If they smoothed out his powercurve, for example have the CD & charges just trigger at certain levels instead of at x chimes he'd probably feel considerably nicer. Then make it so he if he falls behind on chimes he isn't utterly screwed and you've probably fixed most of the issues around him.

Beyond that he just has the normal support issues of having no money, no acces to actually good items, being forced to buy stuff you don't really want, and scalings that are too low to make use of the slivers of AP he actually has acces to... Which combined with the weird power curve and his inherent difficulty just make him less favorable than other options.