How come there are so many players that do not understand the importance of wards?

Finest Support·Nov 28, 2016·3 votes·771 views

We all know wards are possibly the most important thing in this team-based game , however (as a support main) i am left wondering why i am the only one ever warding? Yes eventually you get those who ward extensively but most of the time i just see the mini map black. I see people spending loads of gold on Damage items but not a measly 75 gold quantity on a single "pink" ward?

So whats with this??? When did players disregard vision so much???

Wards save lives uk*[zombie-brand-mindblown]*

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8 Comments

Lux HDNov 28, 20165 votes

Because they do no damage, so a vast chunk of players won't even consider them.

It's the same reason the 0/7/0 Garen on your team is still building full AD instead of any defensive items.

ZielmannNov 28, 20163 votes

Your name seems related to this post.

Maximum MordeNov 28, 20163 votes

All I'm hearing is delete wards

CerealBoxOfDoomNov 28, 20162 votes

wards do need nerfs though

op as shit

WaffletimewarpNov 28, 20162 votes

Vision is for the WEAK.

DivewingNov 29, 20162 votes

because they dont have access to them. The trinket is fucking useless and completely insufficient for a person to defend themselves.

Time was you could chastise a player for not warding, now if it's not the support, I'm really not too surprised. Riot's direction with vision has dramatically reduced exposure to wards, so for anyone looking in they'd look pretty gimmicky.

ErockandrollNov 29, 20161 votes

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because they dont have access to them. The trinket is fucking useless and completely insufficient for a person to defend themselves.

Time was you could chastise a player for not warding, now if it's not the support, I'm really not too surprised. Riot's direction with vision has dramatically reduced exposure to wards, so for anyone looking in they'd look pretty gimmicky.

Well it's not like Riot is going to completely invalidate the Jungler now is it. Besides, I often find the trinket ward to be sufficient most of the time if your resourceful. And come later in the game, personal protection is no longer the purpose of your trinket. It's the team wide benefit of vision, and tracking the enemy team.

Players are still restricted to 3 wards and a pink. Even with a sight stone, relegating the vision game exclusively to the support role, your potentially reducing your over all vision by more than half. And the fact that you have a trinket means you have no reason not to ward.

Riot reduced the sources of vision because people were not buying the wards true. That still left us with the trinkets, and pinks are at an all time low. Also, they seem to be moving towards playing the vision game in other ways. Started with scutle crab, then the smite buffs on wolf and raptors, and then the Blue plant.

DivewingNov 29, 20161 votes

the main point is, on the surface wards look bad. They APPEAR to have huge cooldowns, short durations, and you can only have 2 up at once.

For anyone coming in fresh I wouldn't be surprised if they laughed "good lord these things are useless"