Bard is nothing but a liability to his team all game

Cloud273·May 6, 2015·3 votes·511 views

Maybe in bronze you can get away with collecting trinkets, but in higher tiers they have their entire jungle warded. The instant bard leaves, everyone pings and he gets ambushed in the jungle. And his portal doesn't do sh*t for him, as his enemies move through it almost as fast as he does. Maybe I just haven't found that "sweet spot", but I find it very hard to enter his portal quickly. I keep clicking, but I feel like it takes WAY too long to actually enter the portal. You can't make those "clutch plays" with his portal like you can with other abilities. I feel like if they made his portal more responsive, and made his enemies travel more slowly through it, this would fix a lot of his problems.

3 Comments

CaRTeLKiLLaMay 6, 20153 votes

The first time I played with a Bard was in a ranked game, I was about to land a 3 man stun with Jax on both carries and then Randuins for the triple kill. So Bard ults me just as I'm about to stun them, Bard's ult ends, their AD carry dashes away and starts blasting me since I no longer can dodge autoattacks, their support CCs me while their mid nukes me down to nothing while I can't even get a single auto off. Sick clutch play by Bard to carry the enemy team

NoMonkuMay 6, 20151 votes

You probably aren't clicking on it correctly then. The main thing that bard introduced as a champion is high risk/reward with his skill set. If you land his abilities correctly, he is a godly support. If you miss though, then you have a chance being more of a liability to your team then a help.

NilokMay 6, 20151 votes

Ya, Bard is a very technical champion and adds little damage to his team. A great Bard can help turn around some games, but I find a champion like Sona, Leona, or Taric simply have more presence and usually more impact in a game while Bard just sometimes shows up, maybe helps someone, and runs away.

In the hands of an average to poor player, or simply a troll, he will ruin your game, which is probably the core problem so many people hate him.