Ping for "Warded" & " Enemy Jungler Spotted"

Kryptone·1/17/2017, 2:38:20 PM·111 votes·6,346 views

Communicating with team members effectively in SoloQ is one hell of a job. I believe many times you might have come across situations where your jungler is waiting in a bush that is warded by enemy laner. And when you ping "Danger", some of them interpret it as "GTFO" or "I DONT NEED GANK". (For the fact that most people assume everybody is toxic af). And mostly the communication is important to know where enemy jungler is so that you can know when to and when not to go all in against your enemy laner. Now, while I do accept the fact that we can always type in chat like "Lee top", "Jungler at bot" etc etc and use "Danger" ping, let's just accept the fact that it's way too dangerous to type something like that in the chat while laning.

Also as of now, people can only use "Danger" ping when spotting an enemy jungler by a ward etc. But problem is, in SoloQ most people ignore the "Danger" ping unless it is used near them, since everybody have this habit of spamming Danger asking your ally to fall back when in a bad position. So, unless the Danger ping is not used sight of the person, he will not care to look if that ping shows where enemy jungler is, or if that ping ask an ally to fall back.

So How about we could add these two pings. Specially the "Jungler Spotted" ping will help A LOT in SoloQ since whenever it is used, due to its unique sound, everybody will take a look at the minimap when used. This way whole team can properly exchange the information about enemy jungler's location without taking risks like typing it in chat everytime.

Meanwhile, the "Warded" ping will also make it easier for Junglers to know if it is safe to gank or not. Because, normally we get late to type in chat that the bush is warded and by the time we make it, the jungler is already in vision to enemy's ward. Thus giving away his location to entire team. This could be prevented if people could just ping warded in a fraction of second and therefore keep the ally jungler out of enemy's vision.

I hope we could have this feature implemented since I believe this will help a lot in having better communication and making better plays as a team.

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49 Comments

Elite4Runner1/17/2017, 2:50:34 PM32 votes

I think something like "Enemy in Area" would be better than to specify the Jungler.

If the mid laner or support is roaming and you were to ping "Jungler spotted", but the jungler is visible on the other side of the map, the message may not be received well.

I definitely agree with the "Warded" ping though.

Le Tongue1/17/2017, 3:39:39 PM14 votes

The "Warded" ping is something I'd use a lot.

Velzard of Koz1/17/2017, 5:47:19 PM11 votes

We'd also need WTF ping so that Missing ping is not being abused. It will help team furtherly communicate so that they can conveniently point each other's mistakes and saemantically correctly express their displease with the steps their fellow teammates has used in order to execute their plan to infiltrate all five enemies on their own.

Stillname1/17/2017, 4:32:14 PM4 votes

We could just flat out replace the "?" mia ping. People only seem to use that to bm their teammates nowadays.

Dirty Bastard1/17/2017, 5:59:02 PM3 votes

There already is a ping for ALERT, and a Ping for ASSIST. Why add more niggles when you can simply ping alert for danger, and ping assist for clearly come assist me.

On the topic of wards, this is however something I want to add that is forever forgotten and neglected. Warding is everyone's responsibility, and taking advantage of vision is everyone's responsibility not just the support players.

Always place red control wards on the Buffs, it should be mids responsibility to buy and place a red on blue, as that is what she is most interested in, ADC can buy and place on RED, Jungle will place one deep so he has vision. Top controls top river with wards. People almost always forget to use trinkets and if you do use trinks that is great but do not be too cheap to buy a red and place it in small river bush deep near enemy jungles buffs for the team advantage.

Place deep wards when able to help your team, not just selfish wards that only serve you and then pay them no mind and get ganked for not having awareness. If you have a ward down and still get ganked, then your just not paying attention. Bot, Support controls Dragon, Jungle and Top control Herald and Baron.

Warding is not just supports role, but for all those bad supports a reminder if you want to win games, YOU DO NEED VISION - BUY Sighstone and continue to sweep and buy and place a red if your sweeper is down and you suspect a ward in the area so that you control vision of the map.

I have played support for nearly 4 years among other roles but mainly I like to support and I am pretty good at it and can shut down most ganks while I monitor the map and fight enemy laners, and alert my team of MIA and danger in any other lane all while I am supporting my adc or roaming to help another lane or clear enemy wards. This is how supports are meant to carry, and to the adc's with high egos and soft hearts.... if your support gets a kill that was getting away anyhow but was secured by support, don't cry and bitch and pull fit.

Be happy for the assists that you would have not even gotten a kill and now you can farm while enemy adc is dead. Reflect and realize most supports have mechanics to adc, mid or jg, or top and most have way better awareness that trump 50% of the players out there, they peel for you, they bring the enemy adc and enemy supports health low enough for you to kill, and if they are good they monitor the map to keep everyone ahead, so just relax and enjoy the free gold and put on big boy pants.

And of course last but not least we must always remember...

If you get ganked blame support for no ward, if your losing lane blame jungle for not ganking even though he would probably die because you feed.

Starduster1/17/2017, 11:36:28 PM3 votes

Jungler looking like Moon Knight.

GULAG 4 U1/18/2017, 12:16:05 AM3 votes

inb4 people downvote because they see yasuo

RamboDash151/17/2017, 3:31:07 PM3 votes

The largest argument against this is that it will mess with muscle memory, but they could use a different hotkey for those two and it will only take a short time to learn it

Yaśuo Main1/17/2017, 8:20:36 PM2 votes

YASUO PINGING?

h5LYF41Lam1/17/2017, 3:27:50 PM2 votes

i just spam danger the fck out of the soon to be ganked lane.

SlashStriker1/17/2017, 6:20:49 PM2 votes

Why if its not a jungler but its mid laner?

So instead Enemy Jungler Spotted it should be Enemy Champion Spotted or Enemy Champion Incomming

Warded - ward should be Red - green is for Ally

Enemy jungler / champion spotted - not suitable icon and it should be Red Suggested icon seems like Enemy Summoner Spotted

iamthegoatofwar1/17/2017, 10:34:42 PM1 votes

Normally when I play top lane if I have checked my map for a moment and the danger ping pops up I typically just mentally think "Here we go...".

Pale Pirate1/17/2017, 10:53:43 PM1 votes

Imagine if you could just instantly ping that the enemy jungler is in your jungle, instead of getting into a 1 vs 1 and hoping your midlaner/support will notice.

big boi edri1/17/2017, 7:04:14 PM1 votes

I feel like the jungler spotted ping would be effective in some scenarios, but not absolutely necessary as it can already be done with the "Careful" ping or w/e it is. It would however add a bit more clarity, and if they could lay it out to drop the ping with ease I don't see why it would hurt.

The warded ping however would be amazing. Brilliant idea.

Profirix1/17/2017, 4:37:49 PM1 votes

What would be nice is if it was applied to the 'V' key in a manner consistent with 'g' + hold radial menu. So a ward ping would be 'v' + hold and when you ping a particular location, an indicator appears for 30 seconds or so on the minimap.

YoungFarmer1/18/2017, 2:32:44 AM1 votes

You make that? it looks sexy

Ultîma1/18/2017, 4:10:30 PM1 votes

These two pings (or variants of) have been requested since Riot introduced the ping system in the first place. Why can't "caution" or "danger" (which are redundant) be replaced by either of these? It makes sense. It adds value to communication and gameplay. Why it hasn't been done yet is completely beyond me.

Joseraph1/18/2017, 4:22:12 PM1 votes

Enemy Spotted

Xiào Jiè Jiè1/18/2017, 4:27:01 PM1 votes

YES,it will be so useful for either jg and bot lane @riot pls add it,its ez work for you guys anyway just like the loading indicator and pinging item, ping*[slayer-pantheon-thumbs]*

IA9hRfpP5q1/18/2017, 7:48:20 PM1 votes

I just ping spam DANGER. In the trail of the enemy.