Post-Game "Vision Score"

Glamorous Rammus··2 votes·1,002 views

I just played a great game with Teemo. I finished 1/0/5 and a B+ performance. Teamwork made the game great. Late game I was able to cultivate a massive mushroom crop in the enemy's top-side jungle. Since I started Spellthief's to abuse some easy income, I decided to get a Sightstone build to help my shrooms light up the enemy jungle. Teemo's shrooms don't provide much vision, but they do provide vision. This is also the case with Shaco's boxes, or Cait's snares, etc. When I was checking my breakdown I noticed my vision score was oddly low considering I had so much of the map "discovered" during the course of the game. The Vision Score only counted the actual wards I placed/destroyed, and not the actual function of vision.

So I thought of a way that Vision Score might be better calculated. Every Champion has a vision range, so a good way to calculate vision is a rate: Extra Vision per Second (VpS). To keep the numbers simple, the value of "V" can be expressed by a percent of champion's base vision. Consequently, stepping on a Teemo shroom, Cait snare, etc. should constitute as "disrupting vision" and could be calculated by the same VpS rate but determined by time left of vision.

For Example:

One Teemo Shroom: let's pretend a shroom lasts 50 seconds and provides 5% of Teemo's Base Vision. Shroom provides V vision for S duration. Enemy steps on shroom after 25 seconds: Teemo gets (.05V x 25S) or 1.25 VpS. Enemy also gets a Vision Score for "destroying" vision based on the amount of time remaining and also gets a score of (.05V x 25S) or 1.25 VpS.

This mechanic would help the Vision Scores of ADC Champions like: Ashe Caitlyn Kalista Quinn

Also- I think Vision Score should consider how many Enemy Champions were revealed. So let's say 2 enemies are in a bush and Quinn uses her vision ability to reveal them: she would get 2 points for Enemy Champions Revealed. Or if Sweeping Lens was used to reveal an invisible Teemo.

Anyways- that's how I feel about Vision Score. Let me know what you think.

3 Comments

OneSexyRobot2 votes

+1 Great post. Shaco is a ward machine and should be rewarded with better vision scores.

Glamorous Rammus1 votes

It provides vision!

Project Xayah1 votes

If I'm not mistaken, champs like Ashe, Kalista and Quinn already get contribution to vision score for their vision-providing abilities, and even affected by revealing champs and epic monsters.

As for things like traps, it makes sense that they provide something for vision score since they do provide a little bit of vision, but should logically be scaled down considering the range of that vision (someone could walk by a shroomed bush and not be seen, but if there's a ward in it they'll be seen). As far as vision score for "destroying" such objects, it should only be provided if they are actively destroyed, not if they're triggered. Doesn't make sense to give someone vision score because they triggered a trap.

Fun fact: Howling Abyss has the vision score section in the post-game stats, but doesn't actually use vision score.

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