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Rift Herald should 100% NOT be in your ward slot.

scribbles782·12/1/2017, 3:23:07 AM·90 votes·3,318 views

There have been multiple occasions where I've been rekt by having the AUDACITY to be holding Rift Herald. Here are generally the 3 things that happen.

A) I'm chasing/being chased and I want to get vision in a bush to see if I'm being baited. I'm about to get into the bush and I instinctively ward to see if anyone is there. I start channeling Rift (And I can't even stop to my own accord) and I die.

B) I'm in a fight with someone and they kite themselves into a bush that's unwarded for me. Instinctively, I ward on the bush to get vision and get that one last auto/ability on them, but alas, I start spawning Rift and inevitably die.

C) I'm in any kind of life/death situation where warding would be essential, but I remember that I have Rift so I just have to take the L and move on.

All 3 of these things are toxic mechanics. Warding is a massive part of the game, and the fact that having a certain item/buff can get rid of it is absolutely insane.

Here is my solution to the problem. So, by the time someone gets Rift Herald (10-20 mins into game i believe), you should not have 6 items, so it should automatically go into your first empty item slot. But let's say someone tries to cheat the system and buy 6 items to see what happens. Since having 6 active items at this point is literally impossible, the Eye should go into your first non-active item slot and cover up that item. (You still get the item's stats obviously).

What do you guys think of this solution? Please leave your feedback :D

30 Comments

Gives No Lux12/1/2017, 8:06:12 AM20 votes

If you bought pinks like a real team player then this wouldn't be an issue now would it? ;)

ZURELL12/1/2017, 6:27:10 AM12 votes

yea not everyone should be grabbing it. but just remember you have it in ur ward slot :/ power comes with a price

FOR JUSTICE12/1/2017, 3:32:48 AM11 votes

this is honestly why I just take herald for my team (I play support). this is because I always have item 2049 in my inventory, and I could just ask my jungler to double-time on ward clearing with item 3341 /item 3364 until I use it

but having its own separate slot for it would be nice

Aimléss12/1/2017, 7:33:12 AM5 votes

We use what? 1234567, qwer and b right? Would it be so hard to use one of the other 20+ keys for rift herald. Like it's not like it'll get clunky, you will only have to use the rift key less than once a game. Same thing with the predator rune, why must it be on boots? What if I don't want to buy early boots, or what if I want to use it before my first back? Can we just make use of the other 20+ keys Riot?

NiamhNyx12/1/2017, 3:38:30 AM5 votes

No kidding, I hate when I forget I have it and try to sweep for wards [sg-lulu]

TeCoolMage12/1/2017, 5:42:48 PM4 votes

Or another solution, you have to hold the button down to channel herald. Otherwise it's just normal trinket

wicekwacek12/1/2017, 10:02:51 AM4 votes

Playing Jax/Lee and i try to ward jump.....Seinfeld theme plays.Hate it when that happenes.

PePsiLemoNN12/1/2017, 1:33:27 PM3 votes

If you can't pay attention that's your issue.

The tradeoff is that you don't have your trinket.

Pieceofcandy12/1/2017, 9:39:45 PM2 votes

Yeah, not sure why it isn't an item instead, there are usually slots open during the timeframe that rift is taken. It's also super unintuitive that it takes up a slot that's dedicated to vision when rift doesn't do anything close to that.

Anyone saying that it's there for balance is boosted and trying to talk down to people like they know what they're talking about.

Ahri Baka12/2/2017, 4:25:25 PM1 votes

I honestly love having rift in my warding slot , just to kill lee mains xD

The Yetii Rider12/1/2017, 4:09:55 PM1 votes

"Since having 6 active items at this point is literally impossible"

That used to be the case. With Kleptomancy it no longer is. You could easily have 6 different consumables by 15 minutes: item 2011 item 2058 item 2059 item 2060 item 2061 item 2062 item 2056 item 2319 item 2004 item 2055

SanKakU12/1/2017, 4:18:41 PM1 votes

Ask your teammate to ward for you! Shouldn't you be grouped doing Herald and while unleashing him, anyway?

SEKAI12/1/2017, 4:21:06 PM1 votes

While it's annoying, but you can counter most of it by forming a habit of having 1 red ward with you at all times until later in the game. At that stage Herald is no longer there anyway.

Dead Anime Dad12/1/2017, 5:24:49 PM1 votes

Small indie company

ScissorsNstuff12/2/2017, 4:04:05 AM1 votes

If you are doing rift herald why do you have wards left anyways :P