Ruby Sightstone Ward Recharging

Shuyin178··14 votes·513 views

Something I was thinking about is how often I've seen supports buy the Sightstone + Support Item variants over Ruby Sightstone. I double checked what all the variants gave over Ruby and it was simple, stats. Looking at the variants, every single one of them give CDR, regen, and Watchers gives AP. Equinox is the only one of them that matches Ruby in HP value, but that is all Ruby has going for it is HP and CDR on active items (not abilities).

So while those are the more combat-ish focused items, why not give Ruby something extra to help players want to use it more often? The solution I came up with, restocking its wards without backing. The vision game is important in League, so why not make Ruby work more around that aspect? Lets say something like "Every 5 minutes generate 1 ward stack", another could be "Upon destroying an enemy ward, recharge 1 ward stack."

Something along those lines would help Ruby Sightstone work more like a Sightstone instead of being replaced, giving it a unique identity from the other options as the superior vision game support item. It would still restock its wards when backing, but every support player knows that it sucks when you run out of wards to place off of your Sightstone items, forcing you back to base to get more.

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ChaddyFantome3 votes

I double checked what all the variants gave over Ruby and it was simple, stats.

Is not actually stats. Its the extra slot.

Technically speaking, the completed support items and Ruby Sightstone combo do give you more stats, it just comes at the cost of slot efficiency.

It simply takes so much longer to get both a tier 3 support item and ruby sightstone, while also costing you more item slots in the process.

I think your proposed change would just make Ruby sightstone mandatory at higher levels of play, as the CDR on Active Items already makes it very potent. this would just cement it as the ward item to get it would be far more gold efficient.

Shuyin1782 votes

They could nerf the Item CDR to 10% instead of 20% and it would still be fine.

The stats are big though because it's regen and CDR which are both very important, granted getting that extra item slot is pretty good too though.

ChaddyFantome1 votes

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They could nerf the Item CDR to 10% instead of 20% and it would still be fine.

The stats are big though because it's regen and CDR which are both very important, granted getting that extra item slot is pretty good too though.

the regen CDR you would get regardless of you getting the Eye item. In fact, you would get more of it since the tier 3 Support items provide more stats.

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