Talk:Bard/@comment-26090928-20150225034226

I am extremely pleased with Bard's Ultimate. Not just because of its potential play making ability, but because it's an ultimate that poses the threat of actively hindering you with poor execution, meaning that cautious and intelligent use of it is absolutely vital. I especially like that it involves stasis, rather than a stun.

I know everyone is going "BUT IT'S A FREE AoE ZHONYA'S/OHMWRECKER" but to me, that's not as OP as it sounds. First of all, Zhonya's is commonly used by tanks and burst mages who get almost all of its utility from team fights. Champions like Amumu, Rammus, Lissandra etc. commonly initiate, get focused, and upon activating Zhonya's can avoid all the skills that the enemy team blows while the rest of their team capitalizes on the whiffed skills and failed focus attempt. They also typically have powerful AoE abilities that can keep going even in stasis (looking at you tremors). In 1v1s, Zhonya's is often a fruitless attempt to turn the tide of a battle, since unless you have DoT you're incapable of doing anything to your assailant, and can even help them since they'll just camp by you waiting for you to come out of it, potentially having skills come off cooldown.

But Tempered Fate? It's an AoE that freezes friend and foe alike. How can a team capitalize on it the same way they can capitalize on an initiator with the hourglass when the enemies are also invincible and can't whiff any skills while frozen? If you're using it for tower diving, you can potentially freeze the champion hugging the turret, and are unable to hurt them in the short window the tower can't hurt you (not to mention you can't damage the tower itself while it's disabled. Neglibible but is still unhelpful for pushing save for it allowing the minion wave a tiny increase in longevity). If the two teams are in a close range skirmish there's no reliable way to freeze just their or your players.

I'm definitely not saying it's useless, it's a powerful disengage tool while being chased and you can give your whole team an immunity to CC heavy burst initiations like Malphite ulting right into your team or the aforementioned Lissandra E > Ring in the middle of all of you. It's unique, it's exceptionally, but I highly doubt it's the extremely over powered game changer a lot of people are claiming it is. Everyone saying it's a free Zhonya's aren't considering how the function of the hourglass changes drastically when you can do it to multiple enemies and allies.