Why are we going back to the S2 "Supports job is to ward" thing?
Other than spending exorbitant amounts of cash on control wards, you've given non-support players virtually zero options for vision.
You can't buy the support items anymore because they've been tuned to punish CSing.
You cant buy sight stone anymore.
You took away trackers knife.
The only things that are left are yellow trinkets and control wards. That's all we get.
And in a game that's snowbally as hell and decided in the first 15 minutes, nobody can spare 300ish gold per game on control wards, because they risk falling behind - which in the current meta means you lose. Nobody's gonna reach into their pockets and shell out money for multiple control wards in a game, because it delays their item timings and if their opposition isn't doing the same, they just lost.
And forget switching to any other trinket now. That's a thing of the past. If you swap out for a sweeper, your team has even LESS vision. What's the point of sweeping out the enemy's vision if you can't put down your own to replace it? If that's the intended mentality, why not just remove wards all together? If we're trying to make the map dark for everyone - why do we need wards?
So yeah, you're absolutely stuck with the warding totem now. No need to use sweeper. (unless you're support). I suppose you could change out for scryers orb if you wanted to, but why grab the one, visible ward when you can have 2 invisible ones that last longer? I guess maybe if you're super behind and don't wanna be face checking - but you wouldn't be face checking if you could buy goddamn wards in the first place.
Wasn't there a time back in like season 2 or season 3 where riot was explicitly trying to get AWAY from the whole "Ward Bot" support mentality? Wasn't there a time when the mentality was to make vision more available to everyone so supports could be more effective in doing something besides just warding all game long?
yet here we are.... back where we started, where supports are basically solely responsible for warding - because they're the only ones with access to them.
All because LCS junglers were buying trackers knife too much and abusing support items in ways they shouldn't.
God forbid we just balance LCS and casual play separately. Nope. That would make too much goddamn sense.
(yea sure it can be picked by mid laners,ofc 60 AP no defensive stats is so worth it,maybe only 
could use it) and now new patch new support item "Shurelya's Reverie"
on champs like 
, because quite frankly, it's a strong overall item, and once I have T3, I can play any role and have wards, because T3 doesn't punish. It's a little gold, but it's 35g,extra damage, and fast recharge on T3.
on Top lanes where direct farming is tough, because quite frankly, most tops have high HP regen base, so the Regen is high, it offers laning staying power, HP, and some move speed. So far just today I played 
top twice, and once was vs 
and once was vs 
; Both technically counter Ornn. Instead of facing them front on, my first items were 
. Regen lane is powerful on tanks like this, so I just passive farmed until i saw a place where I could gank mid, or where I had a good jungler who could come top and guarantee a kill on these guys. Both games I ended 8 KDA.
