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How do I deal with my teammates not warding enough?

NuggeTech·8/12/2017, 3:05:21 PM·1 votes·422 views

A little bit of a back story. I am a support main and play mid as my second role. So warding has been ingrained in to my brain. And after watching LCS matches, I have become better at shot calling and juking my enemy so much that I have managed to out play a Zed in my last game (>.<).

The biggest hurdle that I always face is that my team does not ward enough. Sure I can ward, (like some you smart sons of guns would say), but as a support I have limit of upto 4 wards at a time. I am stuck in delimma wehter to place a control ward at the baron pit or at drake pit when an infernal will spawn in the next two min. I have to implore my teammates to ward and sometimes I get the response. "You ward you are the support". In fact there are games where I as a mid laner ward more than my support and by the end my vision score is almost the double of every player out there.

So I wanna ask you guys how do I deal with this. Sure I can improve on my vision controls but how do I improve? How do I make up for my team's lack of awareness or them forgetting that Riot actually gives something for free?

Here is my op.gg so you guys can give me some feedback https://na.op.gg/summoner/userName=Epicomanage

10 Comments

archerno18/12/2017, 3:07:42 PM1 votes

You dont. YOu cant do anything about it. If they wanna ward they will ward. If they dont wanna, they wont.

meowwow78/12/2017, 3:19:10 PM1 votes

i'm guilty of taking item 2045 top sometimes because of this

SanKakU8/12/2017, 4:19:08 PM1 votes

I have the opposite problem.

I main fill and I find most allies simply ward too much. They ward at times when nothing is happening and the wards do nothing while I save my trinket for when the need for vision is at its highest instead of not having it available when it's needed most.

I think the vision score in the end of game score screen is a load of crap since it's basically telling you very little to nothing about how useful those wards were. For example, you killing a ward might have gotten your champion killed, but it still boosted your score. Really a misleading number.

I have to say, if you look at the end game score screen, and you see the highest vision score player loses the game, then you should reconsider your opinion.

My last support game, these were the stats for vision score:

Me, Our support: 14 Their support: 61 Our top: 22 Their top: 34 Our Jungle: 28 Their Jungle: 24 Our middle: 32 Their middle: 25 Our bottom: 24 Their bottom: 7

Now yeah, for someone without a sightstone, 14 is a pretty low number, but even for a guy with a sightstone, 61 is just way too high of a number. It's not even a question of who warded better. It was definitely me with that score of 14.

Wards are not 'plant and forget' items. You have to actually do something about the fact that you planted a ward somewhere or it might as well have not been planted or be called a ward in the first place. It's not even their bottom's fault his score is so low. It's because his support warded too damn much that he didn't participate as much as he could've in the vision game. And what's the point of putting wards everywhere if you're not going to act with them? Don't even get me started on which champions they were playing and how that affects things.

TL;DR, if your allies are 'not warding enough', then the problem is most likely you warding too much and you're too dumb to realize it.

Escheton8/12/2017, 4:21:56 PM1 votes

You buy a Banner of Command and pop it on sidelanes. Either that lane pushes to your advantage, with the push granting vision and confidence to your team. Or someone shows to deal with it, granting you vision of them.

ZephyrDrake8/12/2017, 4:47:43 PM1 votes

simple, you don't. They complain about you not warding enough? you tell them "i have a limited amount of wards i can carry and that i can place, you want more wards? place them yourself!" and if they keep annoying you after that? you simple mute them