So what's the status on the Mandrake Ward?

First of all, I'll admit to being a Rengar main; I love his playstyle of hunting down squishy carries and killing them with little time for them to do anything at all.

However, I'm not stupid enough to know he has next to no counterplay aside from good ward coverage.

When I saw the idea of the Mandrake ward, I was excited to see that my favorite champion would actually get some frustration removed from him. The wards last for longer than regular wards, but don't actually provide vision. Instead, they hide in the brush and ping the map whenever a champion walks over them, with it not mattering if they are visible or not. This allows people to tell when a stealth champ, like Rengar or Evelynn, is approaching without actually revealing them; it adds counterplay to stealth ganks without making them useless.

But then the idea was just kind of abandoned...it's a shame because it was a really clever way to keep a unique feature from being so overpowered to the point of making those champions who utilize the unique stealth abilities purposefully weaker than others to compensate having such a great ability of ignoring vision.

So...what's the plan? Are you going to bring it back with some adjustments or are you just gonna abandon the idea completely? Personally I would love to have it in the game so you can properly balance stealth champs without having to compensate for their uniqueness.

#savethemandrakeward

EDIT: Wow, I didn't expect the thread to get this large :) thank you guys. Hopefully a red will see this and clarify what they plan on doing with this concept.