Warding doesn't matter that much in Bronze

Lywoe·6/15/2016, 5:07:01 PM·2 votes·869 views

To tell anyone to ward in Bronze and think it will win a game is stupid. Sure it may prevent things. But for me my awareness is good enough to prevent most bad situation. Warding Dragon, Baron and couple of other defensive positions is all that's necessary. But it doesn't win games.

30 Comments

archerno16/15/2016, 5:10:37 PM6 votes

Of course not. When did informations about enemy movement ever help anyone in anything strategic.

Colgate Gator6/15/2016, 5:40:25 PM4 votes

That mentality is precisely what's keeping you there.

DeathBurst6/15/2016, 5:28:20 PM3 votes

Warding helps you, and more importantly in Bronze, your team-mates not dying. If you ward more, maybe your midlaner will not stupidly chase this tank with 15% HP into the enemy jungle and get ambushed by their whole team, because he can see them on the map.

Warding doesn't directly win games, it just reduces your team stupidity to manage-able levels. And that's why warding is especially important in Bronze. In higher ELO, you don't need to see an enemy to guess he's probably ambushing you in the Fog of War, and to not follow a Tank. In Bronze, you won't ask yourself if it's a good idea or not: you see a low life enemy, you chase him.

So ward, it saves life, and so it wins games. Even in Bronze.

CerealBoxOfDoom6/15/2016, 5:20:45 PM2 votes

in higher elo you ward for a number of reasons primarily defensively

in lower elo you ward for far fewer reasons, mostly offensively

Mig896/15/2016, 6:07:44 PM2 votes

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Billy VoHagen6/15/2016, 5:13:13 PM2 votes

I mean, if it doesn't work in Bronze, why does it work in higher elo?

Alutrosity6/15/2016, 9:20:13 PM1 votes

In Bronze you need at least three teammates to be fully competent players in order to win. Warding does a lot but only if the majority of the team is looking at those wards and paying attention to the vision they grant. The majority of the time they do not acknowledge the wards and you sometimes have to ping three or four times to get them to pay attention, and then type in all caps, but this is only for the most exceptionally dense players in the game.

The most useful ward to have is definitely pink ward since it takes time to destroy and is useful for when you're being camped or have to deal with some stealth fuck.

God Fist Sett6/15/2016, 5:19:12 PM1 votes

Vision is key in any game or any Elo IF you don't have vision and the enemy does boom caught out, Flanked,wrecked in your own jungle all of those are things that can happen

NaturesMayhem6/15/2016, 5:37:09 PM1 votes

Actually I just carried myself out of Bronze with a pure strategy idea that I played almost every game in till I was Bronze 2 and then my friends help med get to Silver 4 which took half the time it took me lat year with my new idea and comps. Because is what you say is true and everyone in Bronze does not have strategy then why dont you take the initiative and come up with strategy so you can win against them. Because if all you say is, this is what my elo does so I am just going to do it too, you will never climb. Because you will be stuck thinking like your elo or league. As for warding important objectives, thats already doing half the work. Now whenever you have wards sitting in your inventory and not being used just go find a good place to place them down. I am in silver and even though I play AP Bard sup I still grab Ruby sightstone for vision. The best non objective places to ward are, entrances to your jg or the enemies if your team is on top of wards and your jg is already warded, your river bush so you have better vision of ganks, and the buffs. It never hurts to just buy a pink and place it at a buff. Really helps and is a one time deal in till the enemy notices and destroys it.

Bhagswag6/15/2016, 5:42:48 PM1 votes

Surprisingly, decent players can end up in bronze temporarily (afk, dc, whatever). You better hope the enemy doesn't have a good jungler while you stay blind.

spombjop6/15/2016, 8:31:37 PM1 votes

all what means in bronze is to snowball your lane and then u can fuck who ever u want