Unpopular opinion-bringing back green wards is not a good idea

Marshbouy··4 votes·496 views

This might sound crazy but i have some reasoning behind it. LCS is very important to riot, there is no denying this, and green wards are inherently not good for LCS. If we had the green wards, then LCS would turn into an incredibly passive game. The whole map would be lit up, ganks would be useless, and the position of enemies would always be known. In a meta like season 6 where damage is high, snowaballing is insane, and just a few kills can win a game, playing safe is necessary. If green wards were still in the shop, the whole map would be lit up 24/7 in LCS and high elo. It's just not good for the game to let everyone have a ton of access to vision, it encourages playing safe too much and the meta would turn into a safe lane game. Is it sad that you have to deal with a darker than usual map? Yes, but compared to games where the map is almost completely lit up and ganks are almost worthless? nah.

4 Comments

LadyRenly1 votes

didn't green wards have a limit?

Marshbouy1 votes

yes, but you could still place a lot more than you can now. 3 each. A team could ahve 15 green wards on the map which is just insane.

Paroe1 votes

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yes, but you could still place a lot more than you can now. 3 each. A team could ahve 15 green wards on the map which is just insane.

You DO realize that stealth wards are litterally a peicemeal sightstone, right?

And that for only 800gold per person any defensive team could do the same thing? What stealth wards ALLOW you to do is, if you wont use a minimum of... what was it, 40g per ward? 20 wards per game be gold efficient.

Laners in the lane phase would use stealth wards instead of trinkets to much greater effect, they would be used for deep wards or better. Hell, having the upgraded yellow trinket back would be AMAZING. Vision proliferation was a good thing, not a bad thing.

DrugsForRobots1 votes

+1 for fighting the good fight, haha.

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