What is so hard about buying a sightstone?

Talisid·Oct 11, 2016·2 votes·544 views

Seriously its normals so whatever, I expect stupid picks but just because you're using support master yi or some garbage like that doesn't mean you can't spend 800 gold on one item that will make it possible for your team to win.

6 Comments

JayHog1992Oct 11, 20161 votes

Literally first item I get unless I don't have 800 gold on my first back.

Chamuel85Oct 11, 20161 votes

Vision isn't a sole responsibility of the support. Sightstone is pretty critical for making sure vision stays up. If you're referring to your recent game where it looks like Jayce was Support and didn't buy one, 11 wards in 40 minutes is awful as well. Is there a problem with actually using your Yellow trinket? Also pink wards are EXTREMELY critical. They're 75g and amazing for vision control. Can you not spend that? You bought 1.

BeldairOct 11, 20161 votes

And how hard is it for you to actually use your yellow wards or buy a pink?

As a support main, it irritates me when ppl assume we should buy sightstone.. We technically don't have too.

We only do it for the team and the least we expect from our team is they use their wards as much as we us ours.

The other lanes can easily get pink wards and junglers can easily get the ward smite instead of blue or red..

Now to finish my statement....

VISION IS A TEAM EFFORT AND NOT THE MAIN RESPONISIBILITY OF THE SUPPORT!

EndlessSorcererOct 11, 20162 votes

Yellow Trinkets have a lower duration and are far more limited in their placement.

Tracker's Knife and Sightstone are both great for securing large amounts of vision in a specific area immediately (i.e. ward their bottom side jungle when pushing the inner bot tower) because you can drop 2-3 wards down at any moment.

While vision isn't the sole responsibility of the support, it is one of their core tasks. The support refusing to purchase a Sightstone is just plain inefficient; it is extremely gold efficient, protects the ADC (and occasionally the mid-laner) from ganks early-game and lets you control vision in the bushes bottom-lane.

If you don't buy it, you are just putting your team at an immediate and needless disadvantage.

No matter what role I play, I tend to spam wards around the map. I love having vision since it provides invaluable information and creates opportunities.

When I'm jungle, I will constantly drop wards in the enemy jungle to track their movements.
When I'm mid-lane, I'll constantly drop them in mid-lane (to see when my opponent backs or roams) or in common gank paths.
When I'm support, I rush Sightstone (often into an Eye item) and light up the map everywhere I go.

Vision is just that bloody important.

OleandervineOct 11, 20161 votes

I actually love it when opponents don't get the SS cause that almost always means that they're going to lose the lane from ganks. I'm a support, and like winning, sooooo.... Don't buy Sightstones guys!