Sightstone

Seviang·1/18/2015, 7:34:21 PM·1 votes·507 views

This wonderful item should be a first buy on supports in most situations. If not first, at the very least second. I sometimes even get it when I'm jungling. What I want to ask is, when I'm in a game and my support is working on their 2nd or 3rd item with no sightstone bought yet and the game is past 20 min, how do you tell them they need to buy one ASAP without starting an argument? I've tried to mention this to supports before and it just ends up with one or both of us raging about it.

3 Comments

Zahz1/18/2015, 7:41:21 PM1 votes

good question. i have noticed a lot of players that wanna be an ap carry but are to afraid to go mid vs the akalis and zeds of the world going support and just building slow. They have been skipping sightstone all together

UberAffe1/18/2015, 7:45:11 PM1 votes

Honestly I think it is a very shitty item and I am sad that it is a required item to be a support.

Sure it's gold efficient in terms of buying wards but it also takes up an item slot and gives terrible stats that are even worse when you consider the stats - cost ratio on Ruby sight stone.

I would rather have an item that actually gave decent stats and that allowed you to get wards a little cheaper, with each ward you buy becoming a charge on that item that you can place like the current sight stone.

KidKaiser1/18/2015, 7:50:54 PM1 votes

if the enemy team isnt abusing the fog of war, what's the point ?! when you have trinket wards covering points while taking dragon with pink wards. do you really need a sightstone then?!

sure it gives you vision. but so does a trinket ward. sure it lasts longer. that just means you're gonna have to play around with the ward timers before it expires and you lose vision.

heck, it's mainly used to see where the enemy jungler is. or if mid lane is going to roam. if it's a roaming laner, then it's easy. ping MIA/MISSING/DANGER DNAGENRANDANGERNNADNANDANGER! if it's the enemy jungler?! 2min mark. red/blue 2:50 mark they could be ganking. 3:20 mark. gank?! if you died then rip, must have gone too rambo while laning. or got grabbed/hooked/snared/CCd+ignited otherwise they're at wolves/wraiths and walking to red/blue. 3:30 mark. prepare to ward. junglers are at the double buff'd with all spells ready. 4:00 mark. junglers are looking for ganking opportunities.

DONT FORGET TO CHECK BUFF TIMER ON ENEMY JUNGLER! it tells you where they started.

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5:00 -> 6:50 if you know where they started. ward that buff. and prepare to all man ganks. or buff steal.

7:00 -> 8:30 enemy jungle is grabbing 2nd buff.

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then it repeats.

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around the 7:00 -> 10:00 mark is where top/mid/supports will start to roam if they can/want to. just ping those MIAs/DANGERADANGNENADNANGER/FALL BACKKACKACBALCA!

then remember to at least grab a ward to grant jungle vision while pushing so you don't get flanked. or just bring TF and ult scout.

it's the ADCs NOT WARDING BOT [LANE] BUSHES that gets me the most. like seriously, our enemies are RIGHT THERE. and you're worried about a 3rd party ?! THIS IS WAR MY FRIEND!