Queue'd up as Bard in Team Builder..

I got fed up with having to constantly go support yesterday... I have nothing wrong with supporting, I just finally had enough with how no one else in the whole community wants to support, but suddenly top and mid is the super popular place to be... I want to go check out other lanes too, you know

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It's a bard knock life for me~

http://25.media.tumblr.com/1944fb1d381b33853e795b5f0a7d9070/tumblr_mtvbo1w7Px1sehb77o1_500.gif Stick that in your pipe and smoke it ~Dr. Evil

This comment is so untrue that I definetly didn't upvote it ! This champ is so trash that i only won 100% of my ranked games with him ! Can you believe it ? ONLY 100% !! Plz Rito rework him, he's not viable.

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Seriously. 5 games out of 13! Can you believe it?? It's like 60% or something. This champion is so crap I can't adc with him AND I PLAY with 239 ping on solo queue with a toaster. (It's not really a toaster, I use it to heat pizzas.)

5 loss out of 13 then mean that there is stasticaly 25 chance out of 169 (nearly 25% of the chance) that it's actualy 7 loss our of 13 (46% win rate) and that you just got marginaly lucky in your games. 1 player out of 4 would get your result. Making relevant stats on so few data is pretty hard.

I'd bet on this because every one else is at 46% with bard.

If you have 1 single button that improve your chance to win by 4% in a game (say kick bard) yes you are tempted to use it.

I remember a time just a month or 2 ago. You could get reported for playing support Nautilus.

1 LCS match later . . .

Wow, a whole 10 bucks?

I'd be willing to bet far bigger numbers because the odds of that happening are so damned near 100% that you may as well just get the money as soon as the other party agrees.

I wouldn't be surprised if that happened.

I try to play Bard only to practice on team builder or draft, but everyone assumes it is a troll pick.

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Most Bards feed and they are pretty useless if they dont understand his abilities so i usually kick them from my games too lol xD

Most ADC's and Junglers don't know how to work with Bard, I play bard and see him, not once have I seen him feed or be bad, just players that ignore him or don't use his abilities

(jungler has health pack next to their gromp, walks around it to do red then leaves it there with 50% hp ganks mid. Mid ALSO has a health pack, jungler avoids that one too, ganks mid, mid dies, jungler over extends and enemy mid gets double kill - jungler and Mid both decide to fight with 50% hp and ignore two health packs, so if bard dies to a fed mid lane ganking bot, he's not the one feeding!)

Almost every adc takes the first heal because... they like shiny objects, completely missing the point that the first heal is essentially free since bard can regen mana before fighting starts, but no, waste it because it looks pretty

Not to mention allies seeing a magical journey and deciding to run around it into the jungle instead, either getting ambushed or arriving to the fight too late.

9/10 it's because people don't know how to play WITH a bard on their team, not because the player doesn't know how to use him, but because everyone skips, boots, or surr @20 when they see him, they haven't learnt any better yet. It'll be months before people start appreciating the caretaker

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I was in Team builder as Vayne

Bard enters lobby and says only, "Anyone but Vayne" and leaves.

It messed me up.

Ironically, some of my best bard games are with vayne. If Vayne ulti's and they flash away, you ulti and they can't escape. You stun them together, then vayne stuns them against wall, they are dead in seconds. Vayne relies a lot on positioning, and Bards utility is great for even low mobility champs, so on Vayne the chase is OP, 0 escape potential

They're probably the same fuckers who used to kick people trying to queue up Nautilus/Brand support before those Dark Horse articles.

More than you might think, the hyper carry adc champs are pretty popular for the meta right now and those champs can't have Bard as a support cause Bard needs to roam and they can't lane solo. Really Bard needs to be taken as a roaming champion in place of jungle but not as a jungle champion himself. Such as a Clairvoyance and Teleport over Smite and Flash.

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Most adcs can't handle being alone for 5 minutes. That's why.

What many people still don't understand is "How to roam as bard" Bard actually has a very strong lane sustain, and can stay in lane much longer than other mage supports. Without any mana regen runes, I can stay in lane almost indefinitely. With a few healing shrines, I can grab the "nearby spawning" chimes in the periods when the lane is fully pushed, or when the adc goes back. I can grab chimes, fully restore mana, help jungler with a magical journey or shrine, and get back to lane before the adc notices that I'm gone, I mean, Twitch roams more than that when he pulls back to do a stealth gank. People think Bard has to roam from level 1 and leave adc alone for 5 minutes at a time, your adc is only alone for 30 seconds tops, and even that should only happen if you can successfully accomplish something elsewhere (as in, a sure kill or save a lane with an ulti or wave clear) otherwise, you shouldn't just be roaming collecting chimes, they are present for about 10 minutes, there's no rush to nab them, in fact, having them remain until mid game makes warding safer, since if you get caught alone you move so far so fast that the enemy are fools for chasing you (which they have done with me, right into 3 of my team mates while the rest of theirs are stuck in my ulti after they failed to enter my magical journey) Bard excels at breaking formations, and forcing 4 v 3 and other similar scenarios

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Most adcs can't handle being alone for 10 seconds. That's why.

FTFY