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Wards Don't Stop Ganks.

Evalerian·12/29/2014, 6:01:15 AM·3 votes·1,440 views

There is something I would really like to clarify because I'm constantly seeing players say this and it's driving me insane.

You know when you have those games where the enemy lee sin jungler literally sits in your lane and banks you every 30 seconds?

Yea, well what's the most common response you get from your team? "You're dying because you dont ward."

That statement bothers me so much because wards aren't some huge seal that prevents you from being Ganked, its just a notifyer. For example, I was playing top lane against a Fizz & his jungler duo lee sin. Fizz is already broken as it is, so dealing with him plus his jungler who happened to also be a broken champ, who also happened to be his duo partner was atrocious.

I pinked my river bush, and warded my tri bush, but what happens? lee comes in from lane and kills me. This process was repeated multiple times from different angles. I decided to just camp tower, what happens? Fizz and lee tower dive me ( i had 100% hp), and fizz lives because troll pole negated the tower.

What I'm trying to say is, please pay attention to the game and what's happening to other players. Telling someone who's getting camped hard to "ward" isn't helping the issue. You can put an alarm on your house to prevent intruders, but if they want, they will still get in and kill you. Regardless if you heard them coming in or not.

7 Comments

SeCKS Egai12/29/2014, 6:25:50 AM4 votes

If you know he's there and he's killing you repeatedly, you're right that the ward wouldn't help -- Because if you know there's an issue and you keep putting yourself in a spot to die repeatedly for no gain and at the cost of effectively buffing the enemy team....

Warding only works for players who actively pay attention and keep track of the map. No map awareness and that warding does no good. Generally speaking, people need to work more on said awareness. And that's just speaking in reference to the general populace.

@ OP, as for what you describe, the warding isn't gonna do much vs a strong early jungler with a gap closer and another assassin with 2. Granted Fizz in capable hands is just wrong.

BlackRaven12/29/2014, 6:11:00 AM1 votes

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There is something I would really like to clarify because I'm constantly seeing players say this and it's driving me insane.

You know when you have those games where the enemy lee sin jungler literally sits in your lane and banks you every 30 seconds?

Yea, well what's the most common response you get from your team? "You're dying because you dont ward."

That statement bothers me so much because wards aren't some huge seal that prevents you from being Ganked, its just a notifyer. For example, I was playing top lane against a Fizz & his jungler duo lee sin. Fizz is already broken as it is, so dealing with him plus his jungler who happened to also be a broken champ, who also happened to be his duo partner was atrocious.

I pinked my river bush, and warded my tri bush, but what happens? lee comes in from lane and kills me. This process was repeated multiple times from different angles. I decided to just camp tower, what happens? Fizz and lee tower dive me ( i had 100% hp), and fizz lives because troll pole negated the tower.

What I'm trying to say is, please pay attention to the game and what's happening to other players. Telling someone who's getting camped hard to "ward" isn't helping the issue. You can put an alarm on your house to prevent intruders, but if they want, they will still get in and kill you. Regardless if you heard them coming in or not.

so ask ur jungler for help? also lee needs to w to someone to get near u. dodge his q? so many other factors come into play.

Jixx12/29/2014, 6:29:04 AM1 votes

Yeah but it lets you know the information to turn it around. I'm not gonna explain it fully but you're able to outplay- use summoner spells, dodge and get away with the time given in advance. Fizz can't catch you if he's just become visible by your Tri-bush pink and you're at your tower, you can easily run back if absolutely needed.

Leti the Yeti12/29/2014, 6:49:23 AM1 votes

and then there is rammus that blazes through your ward so fast you cant even respond lmao

AtheosisX12/29/2014, 7:23:13 AM1 votes

Lee and Fizz together can kill wards or no wards you are right. Your mistake was thinking hugging a tower would protect you against those two. Fizz in particular is one of the best tower divers in the game. It's really fucking annoying and quite unbalanced but that is the League of Legends we play.