Can we remove control wards and revert the upgraded trinkets from s5 in this pre-season?
Okey, let's be honest here it was always super annoying to spend gold to buy control wards only to sell them and never have their effect when u reach around mid to late game and u have to build actual items that they will truly affect your gameplay.
To be honest i was always disappointed with the vision system for as long as i can remember, especially those days where supports were buying green wards and not actual items(disgusting), making them a completely boring and almost meaningless role in the rift. Don't get me wrong riot has done a really huge improvement, over the past few years(especially now), to the vision system, but some things are still super annoying.
Wards and ward like items(control wards) shouldn't be actual items in tge first place, since they ruin your options and require u to add your 6 item pool with something that u will have to sell later on, plus they cause u to come into akward desitions: "should i sell them to buy something else that will truly effect my gameplay (serrated dirk in order to build duskblade or something) or sucrifise this for more control around the map. Especially for supports, where they have suffered a lot as a role for a really long time now, is a huge limitation to their item pool. I know that the role of a support also has to do with vision control, but the vision system have to support them in a different way.
The majority of the vision comes truly from the trinket system and by making to get upgraded post or pre level 9 will truly help every role( especially supports) to find a better way to control the map and don't have to spend gold to buy things like control wards at the cost of limiting their 6 item pool.
Items such as the support itemazation line combined with sightstone( eye of equinox, oasis and watchers) and ruby sightstone do a great job of helping supports with their role to control the map, as well giving them options that will empower their playstyle:
Ruby sightstone gives 20% on item actives, the eye of tge equinox, oasis and watchers give the relic shield, ancient coin and frostfang passives, not just only flat out vision control like the ability to scout for enemys' wards like control wards do.
I suggest bringing back the upgraded trinkets, by carrying all the interactions with stealth champions as well.
The point of this post is basicly tge suggestion to make the trinket line an entirely unique corner of item pool and giving the chance to players to forge gold there to get effect for vision, in order to truly feel like a 7th item spot, that is entirely unique and has to do with vision only.