330 base Movement Speed for "The quintessential roaming support" is kinda completely ridiculous, especially given his short range, pitiful CC, and general lack of punch. Let the man (?) train up a bit and breeze through the jungle at a blistering 340 MS or something, if you'd be so kind?
Won't fix all or even most of his problems, but at least then he'll have something setting up apart from other supports other than giving ADCs abandonment issues.
I kind of agree. ea from all the bards ive seen and played with so far, hes heavily outshined by every other support. I mean with the likes of a Leona or Thresh or a Nami, he doesnt seem to bring anything to the table that would make him a higher or even equal priority pick. In addition to his kit forcing him to roam around im having a hard time seeing anything making him a viable pick, at least over the other supports that do what he does in better ways.
Just from what ive seen. Maybe someone whos been maining bard to find his pros and cons can enlighten me, but ill take a Leona or Thresh over him any day of the week :o
I believe Riot's reason is because the chimes gives him an MS buff and he has his magical journey to get around. I haven't played him yet though, so I can't tell if that is enough reason to keep his base MS that low.
If Sona can have her movespeed be abysmal because of her speed boost buff than Bard can too. Equality.
10ms is nothing.
"kinda completely"???? KINDA COMPLETELY????? THOSE ARE TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT WORDS IT CANNOT BE BOTH
"I know, let's make him inherently a very close range support and give him really shit base stats"
Having reasonably good utility doesn't make up for paper tankiness and zero damage. Because even if you land your stun and everything, you'll still come out of the trade worse because you have to go so close range to do it. And health packs alone won't win a lane because they're so damn expensive.
