Bard, the useless.

CSIR1913·Mar 17, 2015·9 votes·7,351 views

1 - His basic attack does less damage than a minion . 2 - His " q " does little damage too, no matter how many items " AP" you buy . 3 - In the lane game all you can do is give a little life to your partner in an attack , because with the " Q " alone can give stun your enemies when you hit both at once , or when there is a wall , but will do nothing to harm. 4 - His " R" is very bad, very bad and I did not help much either lane game or late game .

Soraka , Nami , Sona, Taric , and others ( ) are many better in these respects.

Bard is useless and a terrible fail.

I just hope RIOT update shortly this champion and improve it because it is really useless.

11 Comments

DrCyanideMar 17, 20154 votes

I'm pretty sure calling a champion "a terrible fail" in the first week they've been on live is "a terrible fail".

ZmuecatMar 17, 20153 votes

Yeah, true supports can be harder to make work when you don't know what you're doing.

RattleKnightMar 23, 20153 votes

Yeap. Had a teamamate lock in bard mid. He does no dmg and can do nothing whatsoever. As a suport, the only thing he should be is a tank.

TAOofBENMar 17, 20152 votes

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1 - His basic attack does less damage than a minion . 2 - His " q " does little damage too, no matter how many items " AP" you buy . 3 - In the lane game all you can do is give a little life to your partner in an attack , because with the " Q " alone can give stun your enemies when you hit both at once , or when there is a wall , but will do nothing to harm. 4 - His " R" is very bad, very bad and I did not help much either lane game or late game .

Soraka , Nami , Sona, Taric , and others ( ) are many better in these respects.

Bard is useless and a terrible fail.

I just hope RIOT update shortly this champion and improve it because it is really useless.

Well said!

I could not agree with you more. On another post a person went through the "MATH" of why Bard sucks so bad.

He's about the biggest liability on any team. But I can see how the elite can play the shit out of him and be super effective. Sadly... that's not most of LoL. That's a tiny tiny percentage.

TyrlolApr 12, 20151 votes

But I can see how the elite can play the shit out of him and be super effective.

Remember though, that they could probably have performed even better on almost literally any other champion.

Don't get me wrong, Bard is thematically awesome and I want him to succeed, but he is quite possibly the least effective champion in the entire game.

BeatzBoyFTWMar 17, 20152 votes

1 - His basic attack does less damage than a minion . 2 - His " q " does little damage too, no matter how many items " AP" you buy .

Low damage but has good CC, so that he will always stay support. Give him higher AP, and he will be the next Soraka.

3 - In the lane game all you can do is give a little life to your partner in an attack , because with the " Q " alone can give stun your enemies when you hit both at once , or when there is a wall , but will do nothing to harm.

Best idea is to simply place some healing shrine near your turret or in bush, and let it wait til the upgrading heal comes in. Do note that the heal shrine last forever.

4 - His " R" is very bad, very bad and I did not help much either lane game or late game .

Half agree, half disagree. Can be useful in some teamfight moments, but is dumb as fk when used to stop your own teammmates' combo, especially if paired with assassin teammates like Zed or LeBlanc.

Chaosfox100Mar 18, 20152 votes

Bard not that bad seen some people play him all right he new give him like week or two

nomeLMar 17, 20151 votes

Dude it's new champion, sooner or later some asshole will come along, find a game breaking glitch on them and then they'll get nerfed so hard they'll never get played again. But i see alot of noobs who cant ult right on him.

SpecterVonBarenMar 18, 20151 votes

I have to take AD marks and quints to make my autos relevant for bard.

Asura KishinApr 11, 20151 votes

Honestly I agree, His heal is weak, His damage is weak, his "journey" is strong.. Just kidding, They can come with you, almost pointless unless you have a q lined up, or you're using it to get under tower. His ult, Doesn't really do much, unless it hits the entire team, and the team the bard is on can set up some combos, then its pretty much kinda useless

Azurumi ShinjiMay 8, 20151 votes

I am going to try and see if bard is passable by playing a lot more games...but after a couple games i have never had such a bad experience except maybe janna....but i soon learned to love janna. Bard seems extremely gimmicky and i am having a very hard time imagining his potential being good. The only great ability he has is his ult and even that is kinda gimmicky. everything else seems like a bad joke , even his passive.

Again , his ult CAN be really good since its amazing for stealing dragon/baron and turret diving (which i LOVE). but its other uses are gimmicky since its delay and large size makes it very easy to fuck something up in a teamfight. and if using it for saving a allies life its so over kill and that delay just blows....one flash like thing and its useless. and if your trying to stop a low health runner....pretty much the same problems for saving a allies life.

His heal's healing is horrible especially since its high mana cost....but the speed boost saves it from being a complete joke. Still even if its good , its not amazing. the three shrines limit also kinda kills it since they can also step on it AND there visible. yet teemo can place as many shrooms(yea its a ultimate ....) as he wants and there invisible , and they slow the enemy down which is the equivalent of bards speed boost. teemo also has a built in speed steroid , while bard has this gimmicky passive that says he needs relics for his speed steroid. obviously teemo does a LOT more damage. all teemo needs is a heal and he would make bard look absolute useless in comparison. ( teemo doesnt have a stun , but his blind is pretty sweet when you consider how cheap it is.)