MRW I'm Bard and my adc getting stomped bot lane and she screams"Bard quit fucking roaming and help!

Yeah like the only time I can see him being a strong pick is when the enemy support is someone like Sona or Soraka and Bard's adc is ezreal, trist, or cait

I understand what you are trying to say, but I feel like if Bard was in the lane, their team would not try to push as hard.

Actually I totally disagree. Bard has a stun, a heal, aa harass, built in escape from his E, and very likely an exhaust to keep us alive or an ignite to prevent them from going super ham. If all else fails, any champ can always act as a meat shield for skill shots.

Besides, I would never QQ at a support in my lane who is at least trying to help out. Everyone has to through the learning phase/ has a bad game sometime. It's this Bard attitude of leaving forever and allowing me to fall dismally behind without even attempting to be useful that I hate.

Bard does have CC and ranged harass. You do know that, right? Bard players need to start using a checklist on whether or not they should leave the lane to roam.

1. Is the ADC returning to base when I don't need to? Then Roam.

2. Is the enemy low enough that engaging 2v1 will likely get one of them killed? Roam.

3. Is our jungler nearby and has he shown the map awareness to respond to action close to his position? You can roam.

4. Is the enemy incapable of towerdiving effectively and they are pushing up? Roam a little.

5. Do you have your ult and are you pretty good at landing it from a distance? Sure, roam to max range because you can still protect your ADC from there in a pinch.

Basically, you should ALWAYS be asking yourself before you right click to the nearest bell, "Will my ADC be relatively safe from everything except his own stupidity?" If they can tower dive him, you don't leave. If they can easily chase him down, you don't leave. Too often I've seen Bard leave at the worst times and stay at the worst times. Guess what? You're Bard. If you are alone and they are pushing, you aren't going to save the tower. You don't have waveclear. You are probably better off using that opportunity to roam, and then you return to the lane when your marksman does.

That's not to say ADC's with Bard as a support don't act stupid sometimes. They do, but far more often, I see the Bard misplaying the situation and getting the ADC killed than I do the ADC TRYING to engage and fight outnumbered.

Dude, you fuckin sit in lane until your ADC isn't a baby anymore and is ready to set off into the world on his own. Then you roam around the map making plays with Bard.

DON'T FUCKIN ROAM AT LEVEL 1 GUYS

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That's not even remotely true. Even the spotlight for him says its ok to roam when your lane is in a safe place, not just fed. If you wait till he's fed, you get no meeps, and no ability progression.

Also, Bard is in a bad spot right now mainly because nobody who plays him "knows" how to play him. Everybody's build is wonky, people STILL can't land his ult properly, Q's all over the place, and 'Magical Journeys' right into the enemy team. Plus, they still can't judge when its safe to roam or not, or when to gank another lane.

I'm not trying to argue or anything, but when your adc is "being stomped" as is in the original post, that's not anywhere near a safe place. Stop being an asshat and come back to lane, because your adc obviously can't handle a 2v1.

Ok so statistics lie about everyone else on that bottom 10 list? Suppose bard does what he is suppose to. If he plays against say a Leona how will it turn out?