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I REALLY LIKE WARDING

Pixii Bomb·1/16/2016, 4:03:33 PM·2 votes·325 views

But, I feel like, I get in a lot of teams, where I'm the ONLY person warding.

I recently played a ranked game as Sona Support (which we won), and I checked the Match History afterwards (as I usually do), and found that the number of wards placed was 94 (enemy) vs 93 (us).

48 of those 93 wards, where placed by me. The second highest person on our team (in terms of wards) had placed only 16 [the ADC] (followed by 10 [jungle], 10[mid] and 9[top]) Compare that to the enemy team who had 34[support], 27[jungle], 14[mid], 12[adc], 7[top]

What made me write this thread is, that I JUST finished a game playing Heimer Mid, and I STILL had the most wards(12), which is really sad, because I was playing Mid, and not support or jungle (who, statistically, SHOULD have the most wards placed, and Mid SHOULD be 2-3 place, in terms of placing wards)

Supports have it REALLY easy, because we have items that give us FREE WARDS! Without having to spend 75 gold per ONE ward. We simply have to return to base to refresh our stock. Typically, (when the opportunity presents itself) I will place 4 wards in specific spots on one side of the map, return to base, place 4 more on the other side, return to base. By that time, the team is re-grouped, and I can take 4 MORE wards down to the enemy's jungle/base. This happens in less than 1-2 minutes, and it easiest to do later in the game (especially with super fast boots, and speed boosts from leaving base).

What I'm trying to get at is, Warding is REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT, and I urge anyone reading this to try and make an effort in placing 2-5 additional wards than what they would NORMALLY place. Even if it's just their default [4] button. Try to make a conscious effort to place a ward every time it's available.

Thank you for your time in reading this, and I hope it was helpful or enlightening.

1 Comments

TouchpadExpert1/16/2016, 4:22:39 PM1 votes

You can only place 3 stealth wards at a time and 1 vision ward. Those wards from your sight stone do not refresh and are now capped at 3 per stone. And you can still only place 1 vision ward at a time and can only carry 2 vision wards in your inventory. So at any given time a support only has 5 wards on them. 7 wards if they hold onto the yellow trinket and 6 if they upgrade said trinket.

What I am passed about with the removal of stealth wards is that it severely hampers the vision war in the sense that NOBODY can believably afford to buy a sweeper and not gimp their vision game. With the sweeper bought a player can only place 1 ward at a time, the vision ward, unless you are support in which case you can only carry 5 runes on you at a time which do not refresh until you back. If you keep backing as soon as your ward stock runs out to refill your stock then you will be underleveled and most likely be absent for multiple team fights. This removal of stealth wards was a completely asinine move by Riot management as it penalizes players who do ward and rewards the players who don't even remember they get free wards from their totems.