"I am not inclined to buy sightstone"

You aren't forced or anything. It's not like you can be reported for not building it, right?

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I never build sightstone. I just go smite support and build tracker knife

You are a genius! We will start a revolution, everyone should build tracker knife to force riot to make support better. Cause we all know when nonjunglers building jungle items, inherits change.

Because it's a +150 health item with no other stats behind it while the many many many other items usually have MR or Armor attached to them. Even Ruby Sightstone has health, but again, you've just put on health with nothing to back it up and five slots to try and stack defensive/utility items.

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I don't know why supports have such a problem building sightstone

Well I agree that it's necessary which is why I always build it, but I hate being forced to build sightstone because supports ALREADY don't get much gold. Now I have to spend a huge chunk of it to buy this sightstone even though warding is everyone's job. If everyone just placed down the wards that they're given and actually bought control wards then I feel like SS would be a lot less mandatory. On top of that a lot of people (myself included) just like to do damage, and rushing SS GREATLY lowers your potential damage output. It's such a coercive item because even though it LOOKS like it's a choice to buy it or not in the shop, if you don't, then you'll just get flamed into oblivion and miss out on vision because a lot of times on support, I'm the only one with wards down. That's the problem with SS. You don't really want it. You just buy it because you don't have a choice. Sure riot added combat stats to the AP version of it but 25 AP is negligible at best and wont make a meaningful impact in your combat usefulness. I completely understand that supports aren't meant to deal damage, but I think I can speak for every support main when I say that nothing sucks more than relying on your team to deal damage for you, because if someone gets caught or makes a stupid play, and you're put in a position where you have to fight, you're not gonna be able to do jack shit because Riven is too busy shoving her sword up your ass without a care in the world because YOU DO NO FUCKING DAMAGE.

Extremely poor stats for the gold, I believe the lowest in game, that is mandatory for the class with the least amount of gold on average. Sure the wards are great and all, but as far as combat stats go, a lot of supports would prefer to invest in something useful. Unless Riot wants to buff its stats, the item needs to be removed to improve the support role. Removing it would also, likely, increase how many ppl play support because it would make full AP support builds better.

It's not an issue building it, it's an issue of when. If you rush it and you're losing lane, that gap is gonna widen a lot. You won't have the stats to help your ADC against your lane opponents. If you wait too late and get a lead because of it, then you're inviting others to come to your lane and you'll be killed through ganks. You want to find that sweetspot of "okay we aren't losing and we aren't winning."

And honestly, during laning phase you don't even need a sightstone. I'll get a lot of flak for saying that but why doesn't the mid laner build a sightstone, when he has eight openings to be ganked from? Bot lane has two. And if you aren't over extended, then you only have one. Realistically it's like the top laner building sightstone.

Obviously it's not because the support doesn't need stats when it comes to teamfights as much as the other laners do because they provide utility rather than damage, and the utility isn't greatly stat reliant. And ADCs really love to overextend. Not all of them, but if your support has a sightstone, you're almost ungankable. What lane wouldn't want to be ungankable? If I was an ADC main I would harass my support to get one too ASAP because it gives the most tangible and direct benefit to me.

I usually will build sightstone. But sometimes my ADC sees enemies in the river where I put my trinket ward (before buying it) yet won't listen to my pings or back off. In that case, why buy it? It's unusable in the laning phase and you can just buy it later. But that's also a slippery slope because later never comes.

I'm rambling now. But I hope that sorta makes sense that it's almost never an issue of if, but rather, when.

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I don't know why supports have such a problem building sightstone

ITS A SLAVESTONE.

me too. Report them and buy it, even if I am mid...sad life in the dark

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I personally report every support that doesnt get it. It may sound hard, but 95% it ruins the game because one person didnt want to spend 800 gold on an essential item.

Pretty much ensuring your reports carry no weight when you actually have trolls in your game. It'll have the same effect as someone saying they're gonna write "Reported" on a big piece of paper and put it on their wall. Report away lol

Does that mean I get to report every ADC that doesn't build EC against Sorakas? Because they're both 800G items lol. And I've hard a lot of ADCs that won't buy it

there is a reason why the level 0 of league of legends is diamond 2 and 80% of the playerbase is bronze and silver.

Yes you are

-literally anybody else on your team

Sir you must be a bit confused. The role you are looking for is midlane.