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We need a pink ward trinket back, or buff red trinket.

Skystrike7·6/10/2016, 5:56:31 PM·10 votes·675 views

Hello, I am a Tryndamere main since s3 and I have an affinity for dueling. I find it fun to 1v1. That being said, it just feels unfair that being full build actually DECREASES my ability to duel certain champs: Namely, the stealth champs.

You know, Akali for example. You know where she is. But you can't click on her. Naturally, I can buy pink wards and duel her fine...but at full build, I lose this ability to pink ward the shroud. Same with Vayne, Teemo, Talon, and other stealth champs. A trinket with true vision would allow this to be counterable, making up for the item slot that otherwise would be dedicated to pink warding.

Additionally, you simply cannot use pink wards AT ALL come lategame at full build, because you can't buy any! Perhaps the trinket slot could be able to hold purchasable pink wards at the cost of having to sell the trinket to do so? Having dual capability, to hold pinks and the typical trinkets would be a great solution possibly.

Riot, please consider this.

Players, please bump and upvote for...Hehe...Visibility :)

7 Comments

Maple Crusader6/10/2016, 6:01:52 PM4 votes

item 3341 and item 3364 don't seem that helpful compared to how they used to work with spotting stealth champs.

Tenth Leper6/11/2016, 4:06:40 PM2 votes

Bumping for pink ward trinket =D

Sona Ping6/10/2016, 6:37:17 PM1 votes

The capability to weaken one of a champion's abilities is very, very strong and as such, even weakening a portion of it comes with a price tag of thousands of gold (see: Armor, Zhonya's, etc.). What a Vision Ward is, is the capability to not just weaken but to completely negate a primary strength of one of the few abilities that were designed to be a part of the kit around, some even ultimate level abilities. And this capability only costs 75 gold, or in the case of a trinket, for free. That's a massive amount of strength for no real cost and is not comparable when compared to anything else in the ecosystem of this game. In regards to balance, it's worse especially for champions that have become overpowered, because even when trying tune them down one would have to balance around the fact that significant amount of their power is going to be negated for 75g and the champion, even when overpowered, has to be made stronger than they otherwise should be because pink wards exist.

Would you think it "fair", or reasonable and healthy for game balance if someone could buy an Orange Ward that canceled invulnerability effects?

Skystrike76/10/2016, 8:45:07 PM1 votes

@SonaPing I disaree with your stance on the issue, but here is why: It is true that pink wards negate a large part of stealth champions kit. However, stealth in turn negates a large part of OTHER PEOPLE's kit. The pink ward provides the counterplay...and I suppose the counterplay to the pink ward would be simply killing the ward, or simply not fighting around it once it is dropped.

For example. Akali goes into shroud during Tryndamere ult. I cannot damage her at this point; my kit is totally negated. I drop a pink ward; suddenly, I can attack her and a PART of her kit is negated. She is an assassin and does not rely on stealth for damage, she relies on it for a tactical advantage or escape. Similarly, other stealth champs are not unusable in a land of pink wards because that's not their entire kit. They all are assassins. They all do plenty of things without going stealth or being revealed. By forcing the enemy to get an improved red sweeper, however, you pidgeonhole the enemy team into placing less wards on the map due to the trinket swap.

Skystrike77/4/2016, 4:39:18 AM1 votes

Bump

Skystrike78/20/2016, 2:26:36 PM1 votes

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