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Inadequate warding provided by supports.

Zeppelins circus··3 votes·1,009 views

One thing I realize playing jungle in silver elo is that basically, the wards provided by supports do not detect junglers at all to prevent ganks. They are just there with no meaning. Lux supports with over average 10 deaths per game pushing in and placing their trinkets in the river bush is one of these poor examples. Since you are using a immobile mage, warding the bush which is literally just right next to you means when you spotted a enemy mid/jung they already are on sitting on top of you. Even as Evelynn pre-6 I can gank your sorry ass.

This false sense of security by "warding the river bush" is so exploitable and meaningless within this mobility meta where you can either run past that bush in less than a second, or hop over it by a blast cone. If you are gonna push in, ward the jungle entrance so you can see enemies arriving 3 seconds prior they gank. Use creativity to assert your leverage and positioning.

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HommeGoujon1 votes

If you're blue side and you're pushing and you ward the jungle entrance how can you be sure that the jungler won't jump over the wall to arrive directly in the river bush? even if you burst that cone, most of junglers have a dash of sort to jump over. If you ward both, you need to be sure that your adc will be warding as well afterwards (impossible). sometimes, the river bush is just the safest. but I agree that always warding only that little bush doesn't make a lot of sense.

Done251 votes

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If you're blue side and you're pushing and you ward the jungle entrance how can you be sure that the jungler won't jump over the wall to arrive directly in the river bush? even if you burst that cone, most of junglers have a dash of sort to jump over. If you ward both, you need to be sure that your adc will be warding as well afterwards (impossible). sometimes, the river bush is just the safest. but I agree that always warding only that little bush doesn't make a lot of sense.

There's still a huge difference between warding the closest side of the bush (lazy) and warding the furthest corner. A difference that might just save your life.

HommeGoujon1 votes

It would give more info about the jungler's whereabouts but I don't think it will prevent all ganks. if the purple side jungler wants to gank you when you're overextending, he will most certainly jump over that wall by blowing the cone or dashing over it. The personally prefer warding his blue buff and have mid (or jgl) ward the small bush in the middle of the river. when you don't know where the jungle is you shouldn't be ooverextending anyways.

Pika Fox1 votes

Well what do you want us to do really? We get like 1 ward an hour from trinkets until mid game, and placing a control ward out in the open without pressure is just wasting gold.

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