Should I buy a sightstone when jungling on almost any champ?

Visigoth··1 votes·514 views

I was just playing a game, when I was thinking, "Man, we could use some extra visions since the 3 wards from support isn't doing quite enough." Sure, one of my friends I was duoing with had the upgraded trinket, but I still feel like that quite wasn't enough.

Now real quick I'm just gonna mention that whenever I play a support or tank jungler Maokai Nunu Malphite I usually get sightstone since I'm not really going for damage anyways.

And now I'm watching OGN and I noticed that a Pantheon and Rengar both have sightstones. Now I know, well it is pro scene but I was wondering if it is worth it to invest that extra gold and inventory slot so I could always have wards available. Especially since I constantly have those games where I reach full build and have a sweeper and the rest of my team (sometimes not even my supports gets a sweeper or sightstone, let alone buy wards) rarely upgrades or even use trinkets to get vision.

So would it be worth it to potentially always have that extra vision? I mean, I've had plenty games where I've thought "Hmm, what should I get last item" and usually just say fuck it and get GA even if I don't need it.

TL;DR: Should I buy a sightstone on every champ whenever I jungle, even champs like Khazix MasterYi Shyvana Fiddlesticks Karthus Pantheon XinZhao MonkeyKing Shaco Nocturne Olaf or only on "support" junglers and just hope that late game my team can cover the warding while I have a sweeper.

5 Comments

Spikeman711 votes

Its a good idea only if you have the gold. If the lanes are ahead go for it, but if they are behind I'd save the gold and buy items for yourself to aid in the "late" game.

Just make sure you sell it off later for a better item.

Truly Prideful1 votes

I usually only do it if my team doesn't need me to be a major damage source or as you said, I'm a support jungler. Most of the other guys you listed don't offer quite the utility as Nunu and the common sightstone junglers. They're more about bringing the damage to the table. Sightstone is never a bad item, it's just easier to justify on the beefy / utility guys.

TehNACHO1 votes

No.

Slot efficient champs, for example your carries like Master Yi, must optimize for slots above all else. Devoting an entire slot to a mostly non combat item is a terrible waste of space for this class of champions.

Everyone else is fair game in my opinion. Certain Fighters, almost all the Jungle Tanks, almost all the utility Junglers, maybe some AP Junglers, all are more geared towards gold efficiency, and so can generally make good use out of Sightstone spitting out free wards, but everyone who is designed for the late game generally must be geared for slot efficiency above all else, and can't "afford" Sightstone in their space.

Myrddin1 votes

OGN is not a proper place to look for solo queue strats. Basically their junglers become subservient to the laners, they are another support. Look at their average cs it's what 50-60 at the 25 minute mark?

Now that works for them, since they are organized, since they work as a team, now solo queue on the other hand, you team will rarely be organized, your team will rarely work together as well as they do.

As for the jungles you listed, get the upgraded yellow trinket and buy pinks on those guys, it works as a mini sightstone and doesn't waste a slot that they require actual items in.

OhOkYea1 votes

Been considering it as well on all roles since no one seem to ever upgrade their trinket.

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