Suggestion: Bronze Tooltips

EkkoFroffles··1 votes·649 views

Lately, I've been warding like I have an addiction and the only solution is more vision. I've taken to heart all the other tips people give low ELO players like myself, but had been a little lacking on warding until recently. Yet this change has only served to highlight how allergic bronze players are to warding on the whole. My last match I supported as Sona. They had Yi, Jinx, Ashe, Nid, and Thresh, so no one especially tanky, meaning they'd want to end it quickly and that them going all out for kills would come as no surprise. So they started roaming in packs and picking us off. Simple solution to that, right? Group together ourselves and do this silly foreign thing called warding. But did they ever learn? No, and we lost with the warding totals being me, 19, and the rest of them combined, 25. When I said after the game that we should've warded more, our jungler just said "lol that's cute" like I was silly for even suggesting it. And when I said warding can mean the difference between victory or defeat, depending upon how much you do it, the ADC on the other team said clearly it doesn't, not seeming to understand it was the primary reason why they kept catching us out of position. Well, that and our team sucking at positioning period. A fed Ashe and her support at our turret with only me to defend? No, Skarner, just stay hidden in the bushes... even when I ult them... at turret.

If you're simply bad at the game, or make a stupid mistake here and there (I made plenty in that loss), that's one thing. I can forgive that. It's the tendency bronze players have to be completely oblivious to what's bashing them bloody in the head that angers me about bronze. People talk about how you should try and be the coach of your team, but that would mean your team actually listening to you, which seems rare no matter how you go about it. Maybe Riot should introduce tooltip pop-ups in bronze in an attempt to train the stupid out of some players. Just got ganked because you pushed too far without even a single ward placed? "Um, perhaps next time ward?" Did it happen again? "Yo, before you blame your jungler cause 'camped' and 'no help,' try warding!" I mean, it couldn't really hurt.

13 Comments

OhOkYea4 votes

I think if you don't lay x amount of wards in a certain time frame, you should get a 24 hour ban. It's basically feeding/assisting the enemy team.

EkkoFroffles1 votes

It should be tied to your warding totem. At the very least, lay down your trinket whenever it's up. Even if my warding was somewhat subpar prior to making this a focus of mine, I was at least smart enough to do that, which is more than I can say about many of the people I play with. So if you can't at least manage that? Then penalties should probably come into effect.

OhOkYea1 votes

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It should be tied to your warding totem. At the very least, lay down your trinket whenever it's up. Even if my warding was somewhat subpar prior to making this a focus of mine, I was at least smart enough to do that, which is more than I can say about many of the people I play with. So if you can't at least manage that? Then penalties should probably come into effect.

Yes. Kills me as a jungler when I have to basically screw myself over to by a sightstone early on instead of boots or w/e because no one else is warding enough. Come back from buying the sightstone or multiple wards only to find half my jungle cleared by the enemy. Worst part isn't even the lost jungle farm, it's the free kill bot lane or top lane could've gotten if they had put down a ward.

EkkoFroffles1 votes

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Yes. Kills me as a jungler when I have to basically screw myself over to by a sightstone early on instead of boots or w/e because no one else is warding enough. Come back from buying the sightstone or multiple wards only to find half my jungle cleared by the enemy. Worst part isn't even the lost jungle farm, it's the free kill bot lane or top lane could've gotten if they had put down a ward.

Exactly. One match I was top, had taken down the first turret, and went to ward the bush further down... only to see their jungler just asking to be killed, with my jungler right nearby. Since I've started warding more, I've had enough easy kills/escapes to justify spending a little on wards each back. If top, mid, and supp each just laid down a ward or two, you could have vision the entire length of the river, making it so you have absolutely forever to react to most attempted ganks, at least in bronze. That's disregarding your teammates ignoring your pings and/or their map when they're overextended and someone's clearly (and visibly) coming for them. Not much you can do to cure that level of stupidity. But so long as your teammates have some sense, your opponents will probably just end up setting themselves back with failed ganks more often than they'll succeed. I mean, the only time someone successfully gets a gank off on me top lane is under rare circumstances, such as the beginning of the match when my trinket's not off cooldown yet and I push just a tad too far, or I get kill hungry when the underleveled Fizz jungler comes up and get myself killed by Riven because I had tunnel vision on Fizz. Why? Because I know how to play carefully and ward. And I can guarantee that's why almost anyone I play with who goes top besides me feeds. They die once, and it's just gonna snowball because they won't play safe and learn from their mistakes, whereas I can. (Didn't die again that match with Fizz jungle, Riven top)

S H A Y C 03 votes

something as simple as a pop up that your trinket is off cooldown, or even just a reminder ever 30-60 seconds that asks if you have placed any wards and suggests you do or buy some..anything, just constant "Wards Saves Lives" with like the airplane announcement chime, and Baymax's voice from big hero six.

EkkoFroffles2 votes

I'm with you 100% just for the "Baymax's voice from big hero six" part. Make this happen, Riot!

EkkoFroffles2 votes

I want a Baymax-esque Blitzcrank skin NOW. And it has to make that sound whenever his hook lands.

S H A Y C 01 votes

ok that sounds amazing!

EkkoFroffles1 votes

Even better idea, since he's more like Baymax... Baymax Bard!

S H A Y C 01 votes

Ok guys i have put something together for you to use, its pretty rudimentary vbscript combined with task scheduler, so it will only work for windows. but you can set it to display a reminder and play a sound every minute ( the smallest interval possible, you may change this to 2 minutes or whatever you like) any questions shoot me a message, hope it helps. Im going to try and attach the files.

xml is not supported nor is .vbs change the file extensionof WardREminder.txt to .vbs and voila you have your script. right click and click edit to change the message. edit only in between the qoutes to change the message.

S H A Y C 01 votes

change the extension of ward reminder task.txt to .xml so you can import the task into task scheduler

You may have to edit the task to point to the location of the file where you saved the WardREminder.vbs program script.

FizzOnMyJayce1232 votes

Warding is so important. I like to buy a pink ward and i keep it on that map, If they destroy mine i'll buy another when i go back to fountain. It's rare for me to buy a sight ward unless i'm support. Do you think this is a good tactic for a laner when it comes to warding?

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