Talk:Bard/@comment-26213134-20150316152608

Obviously Bard needs a lot of buffs and/or teaks to his kit to become more viable but what troubles me the most is his e. It's useless most of the time. You can use it to steal dragon but what usually happens is you and a couple of allies get to the other side of the wall where the enemy team is trying to kill dragon and you get slaughtered first (don't forget! you're squishy as hell!) then your teammates die too. Then the enemy team gets the dragon buff. End of story.

Also using it to set up ganks is harder than trying to make AP vayne work. Unless you're the one ganking. In that case I have bad news for you : it won't work. You'll just die a quick yet painful death.

Of course it does have some great utility like escaping or chasing enemies in the jungle - but it's mostly entirely useless while in lane and even when teamfights start taking place you'll only use it like ... 4 maybe 5 times.?

So here's my suggestion. What if Bard's e could be casted both ways? Like opening the portal entrance in front of you as well as on the other side of the wall too. Kinda like thresh's E. This will allow for some interesting ganks but some nice counter-play too - Imagine the enemy jungler might be hiding somewhere near the location of the portal and waiting to jump up to you before your jungler comes to your aid.

That's just an idea though that I thought would make playing him ( at least in lane) a lot more effective at setting up ganks.