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My thoughts on a potential AD bard and the change of the bot lane

Terff·3/1/2015, 4:58:07 AM·1 votes·1,439 views

From what I've played of bard I've learned a few things: His meeps have really high base damage but poor scaling and can have up to 4 out late late game but normally you will only reach about 3, and he has insane roaming potential, but is very weak and can't really do much with it.

Thus I decided that due to the high base damage but low scaling of his meeps that he would make a great AD duo-laner. I tried it out and then made a few observations:

-His early game damage even with a damage item is poor. -His constant exploration for chimes causes him to leave lane and lose CS

and from that I concluded that he needs a decent power bust (trinity force or infinity edge) early game to help him with a power spike, to accommodate his roaming he will also benefit from another ADC in lane, my reasoning for this is that he already functions as a support and his other ADC can take CS while he roams and can hold lane while he's away, thus is the reason why a duo lane is essential: to minimize CS loss and to prevent enemies from pushing your tower too far.

Lategame bard becomes a monster with high base damage on his meeps. Around his massive power spike at 3 meeps he can deal damage nearly equal to 3x his own AD as magic damage plus statikk shiv's magic damage burst thus making him incredibly hard to itemize against. You still want to itemize MS so I still buy item 3117 and then I get item 3087 item 3172 and item 3078 to further boost MS to over 500 with the 3 points in the support mastery tree that grant movement speed. The high movement speed plus his insane chasing potential with his E, his 2 slows, and his ult allows him to catch up to nearly anyone and destroy them.

From what I've seen I'd build item 3031 item 3272 item 3172 item 3078 item 3087 (and something else here, maybe BT for sustain or LW for armor pen)

Pros

  • chasing potential
  • hybrid damage
  • high burst
  • great waveclear
  • great lategame
  • sexy crit animation
  • great utility/cc
  • great roam

Cons

  • terrible early game
  • requires leaving his partner away for periods of time
  • heavily item reliant
  • only escape is MS
  • weaker heal than AP
  • below average range (500)
  • very low base AD and AS

Just a few thoughts, I'd like to hear your opinions on it.

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