Next season New item. Deeper game complexity: Negawards

VelGodd·10/22/2014, 2:51:27 AM·2 votes·850 views

I have an amazing idea, (such as you've heard 1000 times) for new items and game play depth for the next season. The idea itself is simple, but if implemented would have revolutionary effects on in game strategy that is both simple, and complex in it's nature.

Negawards. A new set of wards and trinkets that would revolutionize vision control and make it amazingly more strategic. Basically similar in nature to the wards and trinkets already established, negawards would provide an entirely new perspective and mechanic to the vision control game.

I can see it working thus: Like normal wards, there would be greens and pink, but both would be much more expensive, and the limit on such wards would be even more strict than the limit on normal wards, perhaps 1 of each type. The negawards would work in much the same fashion as normal wards, however instead of providing vision, they would negate the vision of normal wards. The idea is that you would be able to deny vision in an area equivalent to a normal ward. The pinks would only reveal green negawards.

I think this is a simple idea that truly has the potential to add extreme depth and complexity to the game, without stranding lower elo players in a zone where the effects have no difference on game impact.

4 Comments

ValyrianBlade10/22/2014, 2:58:21 AM1 votes

It would kind of be weird walking in to an enemy area and suddenly no longer being able to even see your own champion (they'd be really easy to locate that way too. If it only negated ward vision maybe, but who would buy it rather than just getting a sweeper and destroying the ward?

Cumătru Yi10/22/2014, 4:48:25 PM1 votes

Pretty nice idea.

doubleguac10/22/2014, 5:10:26 PM1 votes

I don't understand the point. You're paying for an item that negates ward vision. Why not just buy a pink ward or sweeper and kill the enemy ward? The same thing is accomplished either way, except you don't actually get vision of the area, as you would with a pink ward. The only difference I suppose is that the enemy ward isn't actually killed, so it still counts towards the champion's ward limit. But if they have sight stone, they could just replace it with a new ward for free.

The pinks would only reveal green negawards.

I'm not sure I totally understand what you are saying. Are pink negawards completely undetectable? Because that would be incredibly overpowered. You could totally block enemy vision on, say, baron or dragon without any counterplay.