A ward is 75 gold. Yellow trinket upgrade generates one every 60S. Assuming you'd want as many wards as possible (You do) this means the yellow trinket generates 1.25 gold per second or 6.25 gold per 5.
Upgraded yellow trinket is OP.
Slamurai Jack13 votesI actually like the upgraded pink trinket. Being able to both deny and gain vision with 1 trinket is really nice.
The Lexer12 votesI'd rather buy an upgraded yellow and just grab a pink instead. Since the pink can survive longer if placed correctly its less of a pain to try to get the map warded up
Wheatloaf19 votesPink trinket is pretty great late game when you don't have an item slot, so long as other people on your team upgrade yellow. Which they don't. So in about 20 years we can start using pink trinket. Goddammit.
XLC2 votesNo one in yolo queue will ever buy wards. Ever.
What Is Smite2 votesI'm a jungle main, every time I back I try to get 1 ward with me to help my team. When I can after lvl 9 i try to upgrade my trinket for the low investment of 250 gold for trinket sightstone, this in turn has helped me and my team call out ganks to each other and win many games. Warding is about 75% of the game
XLC2 votesMaybe I should've said 'No one else in yolo queue will ever buy wards.'
What Is Smite1 votesFair enough that does make more sense
NinjaFifer2 votesHere's the thing, if you put it in a place that's likely to be moved through, it's more likely to be seen. If you put it in a less traveled area, it'll last a long time. Having it on a trinket means you can more easily afford to drop it on the high traffic areas, therefore you're more likely to deny vision as well. Dropping a pink is a risk, so having it on a trinket lets you take that risk without much worry.
GenghisEmo1 votesAs ADC or Mid i prefer yellow trinket upgrade. As a Jg or Supp, i will get the pinks to deny vision and get vision while also getting Sightstone. But i will still take a Vision Totem bought separately with me for ADC and Mid. While for Top i will get whatever feels good for the situation. Possibly to ward all the bushes i will get yellow upgrade, but if enemy jg trying to gank from allied jungle, then i will get a pink to have longer lasting vision from the rear flank.
chide da jungler8 votesIt benefits from CDR.
Bet you didn't know that
Remlap12231 votesOh great, more Ryze QQs now.
Tails Doll6 votes[{quoted}](name=chide da jungler,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=Yr3clTFQ,comment-id=0002,timestamp=2015-07-05T20:20:55.091+0000)
It benefits from CDR.
Bet you didn't know that
IT DOES? HOLY CRAP
junglerboy161 votesnot sure if trolling or secretly an insider on something amazing...
NinjaFifer1 votesIt really shouldn't, since there's a mastery for activated item cdr. Probably a bug.
Aevo 556 votesIt's op, but it's balanced by the ignorance of people that try to carry and assume everybody else on the team is their warding slave.
#SupportLyfe
3tyson2 votesIts op but no one buys it so w/e
IcyPepper10 voteswhy don't you start then?
Be the first of many!
chipndip12 votesI always upgrade trinks, but since I'm always bot lane, I upgrade sweepers and scrying orbs. So even when I upgrade, it's not an upgraded yellow.
IcyPepper1 votesEh, close enough!
Let's just hope mid and top laners (as well as junglers) start upgrading their trinkets as well...
KilljoyX1 votesEh, close enough!
Let's just hope mid and top laners (as well as junglers) start upgrading their trinkets as well...
Considering our ranked team isn't great but we all buy yellow trinkets besides sup and we outward the enemy team by like 40-50 wards we win off vision often.
It's really broken lol.
Does CDR really work on it.
IcyPepper1 votesI don't think CDR works on trinkets (it did in Urf, tho). It'd be even more broken then!
In higher elos, you'll need more of the pink ward trinkets and/or red trinket upgrades to deny vision, but it's not as useful until other teams are starting to match your levels of warding.
And, oh god, your team wards a shit ton? If you have any open slots (or want some subs) this fall once I go back to college (and can afford more gaming time), I'm going to have to apply.
NinjaFifer1 votesThere's a mastery that gives up to 20% cdr to activated items, second to last tier in support tree. Probably falls into that category.
Shifune2 votesYeah, I've recently been trying to remind myself to upgrade my trinket once I hit level 9. Can't tell you how many times I've stopped myself from getting ganked with the extra wards. It's basically like having a sightstone.
XLC2 votesIt's actually better then a sightstone; can generate wards and keep 3 up 24/7 when used efficiently, without backing.
is really just a shitty item supports have to buy so they can get access to 
Only Play Darius2 votes100% this.
I cannot tell you how much my game improved once I started warding (especially since my favorite strategy is splitpushing). And the upgraded yellow gives all the advantages of green wards without any of the drawbacks. It's almost too good to be true.
junglerboy162 votesThat's 13 GP10 in gold generating terms.
To put that in perspective, the ambient GP10 on SR is 19.
Ancient coin line generates a maximum (in lane) of 4 GP10.
Relic shield line generates between 8.9 and 13.3 GP10 depending on game time if used to maximum efficiency (and we all know that never happens late game).
Spell thief's edge line generates between 7 and 12 GP10 depending on how much you've upgraded it and how efficiently you use the passive.
Avarice blade generates 3 GP10 and also gives as much as 7-8 GP 10 in a normal lane.
YELLOW TRINKET TOO STRONK!!!
I mean, last match I bought an upgraded yellow trinket and very quickly became one of the wealthiest and most map aware champs in the game, and after convincing my teammates to all upgrade their trinkets (several of which were Yellows) we turned a very close match into a very convincing win.
8726th Tryn NA2 votesBest PSA ever. I just read what all the trinkets do and holy shit greater totem of stealth is great!
gafratt1 votesDefinitely
iMaB3AST1 votesLately, I've been getting the upgraded yellow trinket as soon as i can instead of getting a sightstone (as a support). Is it a good idea or is it bad idea?
DrathTurtle3143 votesIf you buy enough pocket wards to keep the lane warded prior to level 9, then you should be alright. Most of the time you buy sightstone for the wards + red trinket. Using green trinket upgrade means you don't have red trinket, which means you can't deny vision as effectively. If you buy pinks though and move them according to the objective you are currently working on, it can still be effective to buy the green trinket and work around that. Also sightstone is available sooner.
iMaB3AST1 votesI usually buy wards and pinks when i can/have slots available. I think that if ppl can spend 250g on a trinket, no support would need to buy a sightstone. The trinkets were originally design to help everyone ward and help u ward even when u have full build. (imo)
Lil Gr33n Ghouls1 votesI always upgrade trinkets no matter what role i am. I try to time my back for a 1st\2nd core item (depends on role and build) to be at lvl 9 or 10 for trinket.
KilljoyX1 votesThe item is mathmatically and numerically OP and has infinite invisible (or visible) power.
Nicorus 1 votesPSA Upgraded trinkets are OP, You should really never only get one upgraded trinket. There are so many possibilities with trinkets that people don't pay attention too. for example getting the upgraded pink trinket you can protect yourself from invisible enemies, or catch akali or shaco when they're trying to escape. they all have different applications and there isn't 1 correct trinket to always use.
SociopathFriend1 votesI'll be happy if the rest of my team just uses the regular yellow trinket past the 10 minute mark or so. I can see how many wards you've placed you know, there's a stat at the end that tells me. If we just finished a 20+ minute game and you've only placed 5 wards? Yeah, that's your own damn fault if we didn't have vision- a Support can only ward 3 places, 4 with a pink- Riot literally gave you a free ward and a portion of the community still can't be bothered to use them.
Phoenix Kotori 1 votesA ward is 75 gold. Yellow trinket upgrade generates one every 60S. Assuming you'd want as many wards as possible (You do) this means the yellow trinket generates 1.25 gold per second or 6.25 gold per 5.
Upgraded yellow trinket is OP.
Yea but it's balanced by Blue and Red trinket's power, all the trinket upgrades are great buys is the thing and that's intentional since you can't get them right away.
KilljoyX1 votesYea but it's balanced by Blue and Red trinket's power, all the trinket upgrades are great buys is the thing and that's intentional since you can't get them right away.
The upgraded blue trinket is not powerful. The upgraded red is a far nerfed version of an item which was FARRRRRR stronger for very little more gold.
Phoenix Kotori 1 votesYea but everyone knows oracles was game breakingly good.
And Blue trinket is worth having at least one for team for objective scouting and avoiding being forced to face check.
You forced to choice between short distance/long duration vision, long distance/short duration vision, or vision denial tools.
If your team took all yellow trinkets, you'd likely run into some issues.
KilljoyX1 votesYea but everyone knows oracles was game breakingly good.
And Blue trinket is worth having at least one for team for objective scouting and avoiding being forced to face check.
You forced to choice between short distance/long duration vision, long distance/short duration vision, or vision denial tools.
If your team took all yellow trinkets, you'd likely run into some issues.
With the exception of the support and possible sight stone jungles (nunu) who can go sweeper even the ADC can go yellow upgraded. The reason for this is it's simply impossible to sweep out 18 (15+3 pinks) wards if everyone caps out. You can infer where they are and check with skill shots even if they clear the pit. Additionally scuttler exists further denying sneak ability.
Phoenix Kotori 1 votesSure entirely but to force a face check you only need to control key areas which 
are very good at doing.
Which why and 
have a better win rate currently.
KilljoyX1 votesSure entirely but to force a face check you only need to control key areas which
Which why
http://champion.gg/champion/Sivir/ADC
Nope. Highest win rate is yellow trinket.
Phoenix Kotori 1 votesuhh you're using one champion with sub-100 trinket choices from win rate?...
Information from http://www.lolking.net/items/ is where I pulled from which offered far more data.
KilljoyX1 votesuhh you're using one champion with sub-100 trinket choices from win rate?...
Information from http://www.lolking.net/items/ is where I pulled from which offered far more data.
Well there's your problem.
You're using Lolking which is all elos for items.
Pull up every adc in the game on Champion.gg and its a running theme that Yellow>red>blue. There are exceptions for some champs (those with less than 50 games sort of have a low confidence rate.) but only Jinx has a high win rate blue trinket with a reasonable confidence rating (IE >100 games)
I usually buy wards and pinks when i can/have slots available. I think that if ppl can spend 75g on a trinket, no support would need to buy a sightstone. The trinkets were originally design to help everyone ward and help u ward even when u have full build. (imo)
You are aware that if the game goes on for 3 minutes after you buy the yellow trinket then you're ahead. If it goes on for 21 minutes after you hit levle 9 (not hard if you get 9 early and it goes 35 minutes) it generated 525 bonus gold in wards.
The vision differential would need to generate at least 3 kills to equal the 775 gold generated in those 21 minutes. That's not something especially in solo q that happens often. Vision denial is also much less likely than actual vision to prevent deaths.
Phoenix Kotori 1 votesYou can filter it down to plat/diamond/etc on lolking for ranked and ELO and I did that and yellow had the worst win rate of the 3 **upgraded **trinkets.
KilljoyX1 votesYou can filter it down to plat/diamond/etc on lolking for ranked and ELO and I did that and yellow had the worst win rate of the 3 **upgraded **trinkets.
You can't filter by role though. The top win rate is oracles with sight stone because its played on supports which is sort of obvious.
TiberiusAudley1 votesEvery jungler is a sightstone jungler in competitive play.
KilljoyX1 votesEvery jungler is a sightstone jungler in competitive play.
Except you know Nidalee, Rengar, and the dozens of non tank junglers played a 1-3 times each split.
TiberiusAudley1 votesLet's see what the #1 team in NA builds on their Nidalee Jungle.
Edit: And just for the sake of showing he's not the only one.. http://lol.esportspedia.com/wiki/User:RheingoldRiver/Sightstone_Rengar http://lol.esportspedia.com/wiki/User:RheingoldRiver/Sightstone_Nidalee
Dunkrius2g1 votesNow gl getting them to buy a pink ward.
P.S. I have played for around a year and on ranked, the highest amount of pink wards set down at one given time were 3 (including me). The day where all laners buy a pink ward, means that match can be easily be winnable just from vision. Plat Elo ATM.
