Is playing bard trolling? especially in one for all
okay. I have played many games of bard. I am level five mastery. my main role is adc and whenever my support is bard or im up against a bard it always seems like they are trolling. Is it just me? 
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Used to have a 65% winrate in yankee with Bard till gold 2 (then it dropped around 55-60%). Trolling right?
I think there is simply an unusually large chance for his actions to be seen as intentional trolling.
Poorly placed, and/or timed magical journeys and ultimates can literally screw over your teammates.
Collecting chimes on a roam can appear to be aimless and have a negative impact on the game.
As an example of a poorly placed ultimate. One game over the weekend, I threw an ultimate at the enemies mid lane, outer turret with the intention of putting the turret in stasis as our Yi chased after an enemy (I honestly don't even remember which enemy). During the travel delay, Yi used his Q on a minion in order to close distance, putting him in range of my ultimate. He didn't really rage at me, but he asked if I was trolling him. I said I was trying to only get the turret and he dropped it, but some people would have gone off.
You just gotta play him right, he can be great utility or complete garbage depending on the player
I think it was Aphromoo that said that being good at Bard is mastering all of his abilities and that most people are only good at one of them. So yeah, it's possible that the Bards you get a trolling, but it might also just be that they haven't mastered the champion yet.
I've accidental ulted a group of champs my MF was ulting before. After I told her to let me ult first so I can chain the CC and she could follow up, we didn't have that problem again though.
I've also had a low health Ziggs get caught between two full health enemies so I ult the three of them so I could get closer and get my binding on the two as they come out of statis. Of course, my Ziggs didn't expect that I assume so he used zhonya's right when he came out and he died shortly after cause I didn't have any more CC and then he started raging at me and saying I should stop using my ult if I'm going to use it to troll.
In the first instance the person realized I was trying to help them and accepted I just timed things wrong. The second one immediately assumed I was trying to get him caught and dismissed my actions as trolling despite me actually trying to save him.
Bard can carry game with his playmaking. At the same time, he can throw games with using his ulti badly. It just so happens that a bad Bard ult looks like troll play. Alistar has the same play making that Bard and can also throw games with a bad ulti (not using it to remove Cc, getting it baited early and not having it for the next fight, etc). It just doesn't look as troll on a champ like that as opposed to Bard