Sightstone on Jungle Nidalee?

Ravenhale··1 votes·814 views

I've been playing LoL for about two months and just reached level 30. I haven't played a whole lot of PvP (only 21 games presently not counting ARAM) so I'm still working on Map Awareness and Game Mechanics. Since someone was dying to play Support, I somehow ended up taking Nidalee into her first PvP. It only took one game for me to seriously question how I should prioritize things as a jungler.

I believe the standard jungler build path is picking up their full jungle item and following with boots. Since Nidalee has terrain crossing pouncing, I opted to pick sightstone second instead. Mistake? It pays for itself in 10 wards, which with (3) three minute wards up will only take nine minutes to be more cost effective than buying stealth wards. (It's not twelve minutes, since you place the first one at 0 seconds.)

Example would be buying Machete, 2 pots and trinket at start. Back after three or four camps and upgrade Machete to Trailblazer. Finish clearing jungle and gank attempt (mine normally fail). Back or respawn and pick up Sightstone and/or Runeglaive.

In theory, I could help ward for top and mid that don't have a Support for the next ten minutes of the game. Is it worthwhile or should I just focus on buying one stealth ward a trip? The other thing is by taking up Sightstone, I can switch to the Sweeping Lens Trinket. Is it worth having two players with the lens?

The biggest drawback I see, is that by grabbing Sightstone I lose a little power to my ganks. But as Nidalee, my gank heavily relies on landing that first spear. Miss and it almost makes no sense to dive into death. Land one and there's a good chance target is going down regardless of my ability power. Also... if I had the 1400gp to upgrade to Runeglaive, I could still pick up Sightstone and one of the Sheen components which is where most of Runeglaive's power comes from anyways.

I'm just trying to think of what is best for the team.

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DJ Di01 votes

Team Gravity's jungler 'Move' takes Sightstone on Nidalee on occasion and still manages to get a high kda.

I think it's only good to get it when your team gets a huge lead. If not, you'll probably want to opt for a Tear of the Goddess instead.

Beerstein1 votes

Normally I'd say no, I'd go for a pink and ward up one side for the mid lane, or tell him if he pinks one side you'll do the other (ward even if he doesn't but it usually works for me). But at your likely very low level of play I feel like a sightstone on any champion can help you win the game. If you're interested in more details on how I drop the pinks insanely effectively hit me up in game. For some reason the ward guides I've seen don't have the spots I use which have made games much easier for me.

In fact between that single pink which will likely last a large portion of the game and an upgrade to your trinket for normal wards (or replacement pink) there's really no reason to go for sightstone.

But again at a low level of play a sightstone is seriously OP even on JG. It's a matter of do you want to use it to move up before changing how you do things or do you want to use it forever?

Also I can show you an awesome nid JG start.

Ravenhale1 votes

I think it's more of a question of whether or not I should have it in my inventory for a good portion of the game and sell it when it comes time to pick up the last item in a build. The sooner I grab it, the quicker I can ease the pressure off the top and mid lanes and get my money's worth.

It may be a situational buy in the event that mid or top is having trouble, instead of a routine purchase.

I seem to forget about the pink an awful lot. I hear to pink dragon/baron, but doesn't killing the scuttle sort of help that? Other than that... I don't really know any "good" pink locations.

Beerstein1 votes

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I think it's more of a question of whether or not I should have it in my inventory for a good portion of the game and sell it when it comes time to pick up the last item in a build. The sooner I grab it, the quicker I can ease the pressure off the top and mid lanes and get my money's worth.

It may be a situational buy in the event that mid or top is having trouble, instead of a routine purchase.

I seem to forget about the pink an awful lot. I hear to pink dragon/baron, but doesn't killing the scuttle sort of help that? Other than that... I don't really know any "good" pink locations.

Add me in game I'll give you a 5 min crash course on pinks. Also yeah most the guides I see also say pink dragon/baron but at my elo there are much better spots IMO.

If you have TS we can voice also.

Regarding relieving early game pressure honestly I'd go with 1 pink over a sightstone.

FantasySniper1 votes

Early game, it could a make what's already a snowball start really rolling, especially if you counter-jungle and focus on securing dragons, but late-game you should just give it up for an item with actual stats.

Lugg1 votes

The only junglers that usually buy sighstone are the ones going cinderhulk since the health actually makes it a decent buy. Everyone else can get away with just buying wards when they back since ALL jungs should have a sweeper.

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