You heard him, "build the Sightstone first"

Naaa. Let the carry support carry. The AD support can ward.

Cant carry unless I build full dmg. Why get a sighstone for 800 when i can get 2 dorans rings Kappa

Build (and appropriately use) one of these and I don't particularly care what else you build.

Nah man gatta have that lux ludens/morello first items then ill consider it... like idk mabye after a death cap void staff and rylias i might pick it up instead of boots as a pity item afterthought. Who needs wards when you are a challanjour smurf

Thing is, I don't buy Sightstone if we're consistenly under our turret. For what purpose? To put pretty wards under my turret that barely defends me anyway nowadays? I don't think it's a mandatory thing for anyone to buy Sightstone first. It solely depends on the situation you're in, and I won't put my gold on Sightstone if I can get more healing + shield strength + mana regen + 10% CDR on Janna/Soraka/Zilean. Generally speaking, I think it also depends on the support you play. If you're a tank, it's probably not even important to you when you'll build Sightstone. You're a tank, you get health from that item, you're fine. But a healer/buffer/damage dealer? It ain't that simple for us.

or pick build and proceed to go ham

As someone who has (almost) 2,000 games on support let me just say something about sightstone an mage supports:

When playing a tank support:

Use these items:

When playing a mage support:

Use this item:

Personally, my build (And some people might hate me for this but 60% ranked winrate over 90+ games says piss off)

And I decide about the last item in game sometimes its or or stuff like that.

EDIT:

For stuff like Lux support its:

And for Zilean support its:

(OR)

: Leona, build a Sightstone first. We need vision.

: ... But, what about for the heals and shared gold?

: Freaken build the Sightstone. I don't want to get ganked.

**5 minutes of laning phase, facing against a & **

: Why are you so squishy Leona?! We're losing lane because of you!

: ... sigh

In all seriousness, I don't care what anyone says. A Diamond player, a Worlds player- doesn't matter ... cannot convince me to build a first. As a support main, I always keep my eyes on the map and ward around the river / deep in jungle to see their Jungler before laning. If we die to a gank, it's because we either pushed too far in lane or lacked vision when we get into a fight with the bot duo. As , I want to rush so I can be done with what every support needs and actually become the tank for my team. If I end up feeding their ADC or die often, what's the going to do for me anyways? Yeah it's important for sure, but each champion as a support character serves a particular purpose ...

Force a to get Sightstone over & and you'll be wondering why she can't help you survive lane with good sustain. Better yet, I also main and I absolutely need so i can get 25% mana reg, my extra income of gold, and extra gold when I poke enemies (which Nami is constantly doing with her W). So yeah, no offense to anyone who wants vision first but most supports need their core items over the Sightstone. Besides, you guys also have wards too ... please don't rely mainly on Supports for all the warding since we can only drop so many, which is risky to do by the way.

get it when it's prudent and the 2 trinkets you have in the lane cease to be enough when you are out of laning... seriously, other lanes only have one, and mid has two sides to ward if they want to be totally safe. it's not the end of the world if I get a few other mini items out to help my laning where I'm strongest as support and 150 hp sure isn't gonna do it at that point in the game.