Could we replace sightstone?

Nekusen·Dec 16, 2015·2 votes·270 views

During the preseason i started noticing supports not buying sightsone, after complaining a bit, i went as support a few matches and noticed that with the new sightstone, more often than not you get less wards per trip than with yellow trinket.

So i started seeing a lot of teams with this comp of wards, where supports get an extra blue trinket instead of a sightstone ( )

Im kinda happy they removed the gold dump that Stealth Wards were, and they making cheaper, though.

My suggestion is to remove sightstone, add a summoner spell that helps with vision, and/or make vision more of a team effort by improving trinkets or whatever.

Adding to this that sightstone not only is still slot inefficient, consumes gold from the champion with the lest gold in the team, but also no longer fulfills it's role at giving vision.

4 Comments

TeemoJenkinsDec 16, 20152 votes

.... as a support I always buy sightstone and once I do I get a scanner. Given the choice between Exhaust and a Trinket summoner spell... I'd take Exhaust.

NekusenDec 16, 20151 votes

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.... as a support I always buy sightstone and once I do I get a scanner. Given the choice between Exhaust and a Trinket summoner spell... I'd take Exhaust.

supports with slows/cc don't need exhaust, so you would have more diversity here

TeemoJenkinsDec 16, 20152 votes

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supports with slows/cc don't need exhaust, so you would have more diversity here

Late game damage mitigation of exhaust cannot be overstated. Summoner skill for an active item isn't an idea I think would be embraced. We have brand new sight items for diversity with S6, it literally makes no sense to me why SS would be removed. Gives HP and if combined with support items free's up an item slot while retaining benefit.

D rokDec 16, 20151 votes

I WANT to buy sightstone... It's just... really a toss up to buy it early. And if you start to carry, it becomes a toss-up to buy it at all. It just needs buffs, honestly. It provides so little safety in lane, in comparison to last season.

But seeing as though they took away clairvoyance, I doubt they're looking to add another vision summoner.

As it is, I buy it when objectives and rotations start being prevalent, and I'm not already monstrously ahead. I think it just needs more ward charges, or longer lasting wards or something. Or make it cheaper. Because it's straight-up less efficient than it was last season, and for the same price.