Does anyone think Bard's W needs a buff?

ReverseDivinity·Aug 20, 2017·1 votes·452 views

Most people seem to think that Bard's W is his worst ability and I think I'd have to agree, after the very early game the heal is practically zero and is mostly used for the small movement speed buff. I think it'd be nice if the heal scaled, like if when first placed it gives the first person who walks on it 5% of Bard's current max health and when fully charged 15-20% of Bards total health or 10% if 15-20% is too OP, this way it would scale with bards increasing health and the player would have some control over it by making Bard tankier you'd be increasing his heal potential too.

7 Comments

Zone of EndlessAug 20, 20171 votes

I think it's fine as it is. His Q is loaded with power. Giving him a more powerful heal on W would just make him hell to deal with in lane since chime gives mana as well as coin.

RewtAug 20, 20171 votes

I think they W just needs to charge faster. Right now it takes 10 years to charge.

VillagerAug 20, 20171 votes

Due to his recent buff he already got quite strong, but balanced over all. His Q is strong, E too, if used properly, and R can turn games around. If his W were to be buffed champs like Janna and Soraka would become redundant, as he would be played with Windspeakers Blessing and heal items. His kit as it is right now is very balanced. Any further buffs or nerfs by riot on Bard would be in order to shape the current meta, not to balance out the champion.

ReverseDivinityAug 20, 20171 votes

Don't you think they could nerf some other things in his kit slightly to make room to buff his W and keep it balanced, cos having one ability which just seems so much more useless than the others seems like a waste to me.

VillagerAug 20, 20171 votes

From nerfing any other ability and buffing his W his laning phase will suffer, as much as his over all ability to pressure in lane as in lategame. Bard isn't an easy champion to play, which justifies the damage his Q deals, and just as much the R cooldown. His E already was fixed, since the cooldown was kinda low. His W he can put down thrice and by that he can prepare for the case that he or his lane partner need to make up for a trade. When you step over all three, if they were priorly prepared, Bard's W can heal quite alot. In laning phase that is. Later on his W is mostly used to give an ally a temporary movement speed buff, which is why you max Q - E - W and nothing else. I hope that was helpful.

ReverseDivinityAug 20, 20171 votes

Yeah, I guess his W's better than I made out it was, thanks :)