So am I an idiot or is eyeball collection worthless?
Title says it all, can anyone explain why I would ever pick eyeball collection when both other options do the EXACT SAME THING but also give me free vision?
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Eyeball Collection can potentially stack faster. It takes like twenty minutes for you to place enough wards to get Ghost Poro at max stacks (unless you're building a support item, and even then, it stacks slowly).
Starting the game with a sweeper is a death sentence. Most champs can't even start stacking Zombie Ward until the mid game, and again, it stacks very slowly. You're only gonna get like one stack per back, and that's only on backs you can afford a control ward.
Eyeball Collection isn't gated by anybody's ward cooldown.
It has to do with time and avenues of activation.
If I'm playing an assassin, I could wait until 10 wards expire for ghost poros. However, that means I'm waiting until I accumulate 10 wards and the last one expires, which is roughly 20 minutes into a game. I could also go eyeball collection and play a very gank/roam-oriented game and get it stacked up well before then.
Eyeball is also great if I'm playing someone who runs Electrocute and needs a farsight trinket like Syndra, because if I used zombie ward I'd be locked into using a sweeper to take out their wards, and if I used ghost poro I'd be locked into using my regular wards.
Here's the thing about Zombie Ward: it's usefulness is actually hardgated by the enemy team's performance. Why? Because at low elo people don't tend to ward. I used to run this rune when I was still at Silver elo and sometimes I barely got like 2 stacks, because the enemy wasn't warding at all. And you need Sweeper for it, unless you are an AD Assassin or simply a Duskblade user to destroy wards.
Ghost Poro is good, but you run it mostly for the vision, not for the extra stats.
Basically saying these two options were mostly made for Junglers and Supports, who are more vision oriented.
more stats, easier stacking.
Conditions on the others are harder to fill and limited to ward recharge constraints/being able to maintain the poro.
Easier to get into 10 kills.
In my personally opinion its completely worthless. I would rather have poro or zombie for more vision then trash 20 ap and whatever it is in ad which is even worse :/