I don't get it why only Support have to buy sightstone

Support is a class of champions that can stay relevant through the game with less gold that the rest of the team, the utility in their kit is enough to help the team without much need of gold/items.

That's why it's more efficient for supports to buy sightstone.

The argument that some supports need less gold makes me sad. It's true to some extent but it shouldn't be is what i think.

My main squeeze Sona may be able to function with less gold, but (and this is more or less the same for every AP or Armor/MR scaling support out there) she can do so much better with that gold it's insane. It's widely known how dangerous a Sona building full AP is, but people neglect that her Powerchord W and E are defensive and also scale from the AP, and that's not even counting how much stronger her W and E themselves get.

It's known that an AP Janna's shield is ridiculously good while her ult's healing gets a 50% AP scaling, Nami's Passive and E utility also scale well with AP. Leona's W scales well enough with armor that i buy Coin on her now instead of the Shield. Same thing could be said about Braum.

Granted part of the issue has been solved by Riot by making Support items cheaper than most (at least for AP champions), but that means that building actual AP (Rabadons, Morellonomicon, Seraph's) for those scalings takes much longer as a support than anyone else, and delay our builds much longer, keeping us the weaker link of the team. Armor and MR wise, the problem may not feel quite as bad, but it's definitely still there.

I don't get it why only Support have to buy sightstone

For a few reasons.

1. The item and the role were disigned to be able to function without that gold.

2. The support is the only role that can merge the sightstone with their starting item. Seriously...

3. The sightstone mark II gives you 20% item cooldown reduction. Support is, incidentally, the only role who usually builds 2-6 items with actives.

4. I, someone who has been playing support nearly since I started playing this game, would rather my Soraka or Braum have the 800g vision item that does nearly nothing else, rather than the adc or mid laner.

5. Although it would be wonderful to not have to be the only one warding, it is in everyone's best interest if one person wards places of interest/frequent action, and everyone else ward where they need to in order to stay safe.(aka, support wards with longer lasting wards around baron, dragon,enemy jungle buffs, while everyone else wards their lanes/jungle camps.

6. As a support, you are going to be more focused on the macro play rather than the micro play. Your concern is not "beat the enemy laner into submission" it is "support your team in any and every way possible" and if that means you buy a 800g vision item, well you better start warding.

7. And finally, you don not have to, but not doing so will not only earn your allies ire, but also you will be severely gimping your team by trying give a support a little more power, which is rather like trying to pump a little more horsepower into a scooter. Sure, you will succeed, but did it actually make enough of a difference that it offset the cost of having no headlights?

**Because no-one else wants to. **

And honestly, neither do Supports. It is just something we have to do.

The only champions who buy Sightstone and aren't support are junglers with ward-hopping capabilities. And even they don't always do it. Put simply, other roles can't afford to fall 800 gold behind or they won't remain competitive, but supports don't have gold anyway so why not?

You can build it on other roles as well, the problem is that since how the game is made it's either too late to build it or you have to give up an item slot, this is why junglers have the green smite.

Think of sightstone not only as a way to pick up free kills, set up rotations and save your ass, think about it as an item that gives ou 75 free gold for every ward you put down, logically the earlier you start using it the more gold it generates, now you can delay it if you want to complete boots/support item, but you should defintely build it asap to increase at maximum its gains.

the only other area I'd say would ever buy a sightstone besides support would be top lane as a tank....mid needs to dmg,adc too and jungle already has a warding item of their own

I quite like buying ruby sightstone on Sion. Especially because I like rushing ZZ Rot. 1600 for 500 hp thats extra effecient due to the resists. And I get to have 2 rots in play. Yes plz.

Because supports don't need to spend as much on damage/tank items to be useful.