A More Expensive Ward to See Invis Champs

When Riot made the changes to pink wards in the beginning of Season 7, their rationale was something like “we don’t want invis champs to be negated by a 75 gold item anyone can buy.” And as much as I hate invis, I can’t help but kind of agree with this. But at the moment, this leaves no items you can build to counter invis (with the exception of red trinkets, which let you see where they are, but not target them).

So what if we had a more expensive ward (maybe 100-125 gold), of which you can only have 1 at a time? The idea is that it’s a ward that isn’t spammable, so there’s still counterplay for the invis champ. It’s a good item, one that turns really bad matchups into potentially winnable ones, but it’s a risk in building because of its price, and depends heavily on player skill: how well can you place it, can you actually keep the enemy in range of it, etc. No spamming.

It rewards players for making good decisions. As an added bonus, I think it also encourages build creativity. Example: “I’m playing a bruiser against Akali/ Kha/ Vayne. I buy this ward as a calculated risk, and I also decide to get Iceborn/ Frozen Mallet to try to keep them in vision for as long as I can.”

If it proves to be too much to handle, there could even be a short delay from when you place the ward to when it gives vision (0.2 seconds or something) so that the invis champ has time to react.

Edit: Forgot to mention that I don’t think it shouldn’t also reveal stealthed champs or traps. It’s not a “do-all” ward, it’s supposed to be a situational item that has the very specific purpose of revealing invis champs that aren’t affected by the control wards.