Prepare yourselfs, the troll wave is coming:
Ulting half your team in a fight and watching the others get blown away Ult your teammates so the enemy can catch up to you Saving their towers Freeze your turrets so the enemy can dive you Letting enemies chase your team through walls Denying you dragon/baron when the enemy wants to contest Etc etc etc
Raptamei3 votesHow to troll without Bard:
Riot finally realised that trolls are going to troll no matter what.
myg0t Draxxus2 votesHow to troll without Bard:
- Intentionally feed
- Go afk
- Farm all game long
Riot finally realised that trolls are going to troll no matter what.
After a certain amount of kills you're worth nothing anyway. I've won plenty of 4v5's so it's doable but it's impossible if you have a bard screwing over every team fight.
BluePolarizer1 votesNope you can easily troll by giving enemy information about jungler position while feeding, proxying in their base while feeding to deny farm to other lanes, and letting the enemy team stack Mejais and Sword of the Occults. Good luck going against a team with 5x stacked Mejais/sword of the occults with zero farm and never being able to secure a single objective.
qaECfPHVZ83 votesExactly. This also applies to stuff like voice chat. It's ridiculous to limit champion design just to prevent people from trolling. The way the game is set up, they are fully capable of doing it already. In fact, just the fact that dying gives gold to the enemy is enough to enable game-ruining trolls. The fact that impactful spells exist at all opens up a whole new avenue for trolls: they can just whiff ults on purpose.
Heck, look at Dota 2. Keeper of the Light can teleport allies to his location, which can include in the middle of the enemy team. Io (or Wisp) can teleport himself and an ally anywhere on the map...including the enemy base. Nature's prophet can teleport himself anywhere on the map as well. Faceless Void's ult is basically a stronger version of Bard's ult. Zeratul from Heroes of the Storm has an ult identical to Bard's except it isn't a skillshot. Pudge can Blitz hook allies to him and into danger. In fact, why pick specific heroes at all? Just buy a force staff (perhaps wasting gold that could've been spent on more effective items) and push allies into the enemy team!
No one needs to troll in Dota 2 or HOTS using Io, KotL, Void, Pudge, Zeratul, force staffs, etc. Chances are, if someone is going to troll with Bard, they've already been doing it using other methods.
This is also why I'm an advocate for voice chat ingame. People flame all the time just using their keyboards, but somehow using your voice to say the exact same thing is worse? The outcome is exactly the same: ignore and/or mute them.
Raptamei1 votesNo one needs to troll in Dota 2 or HOTS using Io, KotL, Void, Pudge, Zeratul, force staffs, etc. Chances are, if someone is going to troll with Bard, they've already been doing it using other methods.
To be fair, KotL in particular lets you troll a little bit harder: if you teleport an ally into the trees so they can't leave and then feed the courier, they get flagged as afk and go into low priority queue (and you can leave the game with no penalty).
ModKnightsKemplar1 votesA thousand amens. We can't let the trolls stop us from having fun game mechanics.
Plus, they dealt a serious blow to trolls everywhere this patch, too. No more revive/teleport rammus feed.
chipi991 votesRarely see trolls nowadays.....
Maximum Zilean1 votesPeople said the same thing with 
... Don't see wall trolls that often.
People said the same thing with 
... And I rarely see any ult trolls outside of new players still learning the champ.
People said the same thing with 
... Last time I saw a "Helping" Jarvan was on his free week 2 years ago.
People said the same thing with
... And I don't even think anyone uses him anymore. At all.
See where i'm going at? Everyone says this nonsense about "X champion mega troll" Yet after a few weeks once people learn how to use them effectively, the trolls just fade away since most people are going to be using the champion for what they are.
AMYS GRAVE1 votesI see pleanty of kalista and jarvain trolls... like a lot... way more than any other champs... combined.... The real problem is they have the ability to kill you too.
GnomeDigest1 votesYea i dont care about real trolls and what they might do with Bard. They will troll anyway and most of the time they ruin the game whether or not their abilities can disrupt their own team.
I actually think the bigger issue with Bard in solo que will be how Riot has designed him to roam. Supports just leaving their ADC to see the world while collecting fairies or whatever will spawn lots of rage.
I am glad Riot is making unusual champs but I think this one will breed lots of inner-team conflict.