Talk:Bard/@comment-10880231-20150717005255

I bought him... and honestly, I think it was a complete waste, as he feels broken and/or flat out inferior in every single part of his kit.

His Innate is a utter disaster, as the things spawn all over the place and for a champ with no real escape mechanic (yeah, go trough walls and allow enemy to do the same...). All he can count on is chaining the collection and get a high movement speed from it. HOWEVER you still leave your ADC alone, which places a high risk on you and him for something that has absolutely no reward unless you play for 50 minutes + and run off for collecting all the time.

His Q is terribly unreliable... usually, your best chance is either a enemy in front of a enemy creep wave, enemy close to a wall or a lucky one into the enemy team. Still, the damage can be ignored and the CC part... meh. Leaving out things like Braum's innate+Q combination for obvious reasons, it's still way behind skills like Xerath's E.

His W has to be compared to Soraka's W and it fails flat out in every aspect but the fact that it doesn't cost health - however, soraka's starcall self-heal makes up for that. All it has going for it would be that it can build up some shrines to use for later... but with the longer CD and the notably lower heal, he actually depends on that mechanic just to match soraka's healing power.

His E would be nice if it were ONLY for allies, but like this... not really. It also fells kinda broken when trying to move trough it, but tbh... all it's good for is shortening the distance between you and your allies when you try to collect the useless things. People may say that it brings a ganking potential, but imo that huge glowing sign "ENEMY MAY APPEAR HERE" brings more risk than benefit outside of chasing a poor soul that just cant stick with his team AKA Random Games. And how sure can you be, that your random mates will follow you trough at the same time?

Lastly, his R thanks to his AoE and delay, it's very dangerous to your own team if you use it as initiation while someone of your team is chasing. So the only really good use is stopping a clearly inferior force from escaping, altough it's not THAT hard to dodge.

I was hoping for a "manly" support, that could more or less compete with soraka... but Bard is just flat out bad imo.