Vision Sucks This Season, Can we get an option of some kind for solo laners besides pink wards?

MoarCowbell98·6/30/2016, 5:52:55 AM·2 votes·489 views

Right now, you cannot buy a sighstone as a solo laner even WITH upgraded sighstones that give stats outside of flat health since they are just not cost efficient for a solo laner.

junglers have tracker's knife. supports have sightstone.

solo laners have....yellow trinket which is garbage. and pink wards which are ok but not enough.

are there really any solutions? riot doesn't want to bring back the upgraded yellow/pink trinkets of last season as they were...admittedly pretty op. they kept getting buffed to where whoever did buy them had a huge advantage of the lazy kids who didnt for only 250 gold. they were busted.

but from THAT to this is just...awful. I feel as a top or mid laner in particulary I cannot contribute to vision control in any meanigful form. If I go sweeper I can only place pinks. If I go yellow I can ward more but cannot deny vision at all. if I go blue those are cleared out pretty fast and honestly it was nerfed into a decent state.

Possible Solutions:

1.) Make an AP, AD, and Tank oriented Item that gives decent stats for a solo laner, but not quite as strong as say a normal item but gives you two charges of wards every time you base. Think like tracker's knife. Only solo laners don't have to bring smite to get it. Think Warrior with Green Enchant. You get the 2 wards but you only get the 60 flat ad and 10% CDR. its good enough to justify since you value the vision slot, but it's not going to be MUST take on everyone because the raw stats are simply not as good. this would make it taken by people who value vision over a little bit more combat stats. possibly taken by those who are a little ahead but dont want to throw their lead by buying a sighstone(not a viable option)

2.) Bring back upgraded yellow, but instead of it being the same as it was, keep the current trinket the same, but it recharges only slightly faster but you can carry up to 3 wards at the same time. (not sure on the times, but upgraded yellow was insanely busted before, it charged super fast and you could almost always have 3 green wards up on the map at any given time)

3.) Bring back green wards for purchase. Sure, I hear you Riot. no one bought them. But now that yellow trinket sucks, I wish I could buy them when I need to contribute to vision. This is the least ideal of the solutions and least likely to happen, but I think green wards being taken away AND yellow trinket being nerfed into oblivion basically made the map a very very dark place.

I think how it was last season was a little extreme where good players when ahead would control the whole map with vision...this was bad, but how it is this season is dreadful in the opposite direction. there is no skill disparity between a good player and a bad player who wards really. pink wards flat out do not impact vision ENOUGH to separate good players and bad players in their vision control which SHOULD BE a key SKILL in league of legends. Any other ideas are welcome. just putting my thoughts out there.

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