Jungling is hurting for more than just its camp difficulty. Trinkets are a problem too!

DptBear·Dec 28, 2014·3 votes·1,348 views

So here's the thing: jungling has been hurting longer than since the new jungle. It has been hurting since trinkets came into play. Too much free vision made ganking really hard without good luck or superb coordination. Red trinket lets you clear wards, sure, but if they see a patch of vision go down from the disable they can react, and if you try to clear the ward it reveals you.

My solution: make basic yellow trinket wards visible, four hits to kill. Give them 2 definite upgrade paths (plus one I think could be cool): pink and green (purple maybe). Pink ward is unchanged, and Green would be a sentry ward such as it is now. Purple ward would basically be a super sentry ward which can see into bushes in its radius even if it is not in the bush (but it remains always visible).

This means if you fail to get a gank because you got caught by the FREE yellow trinket, you should be guaranteed to kill it to clear it for upcoming retries. If you want better protection when you are being aggressive, you should have to pay for it! Either with upgrades or the good old fashioned "lets buy wards" way.

7 Comments

PocketbombDec 28, 20142 votes

Interesting idea, but what if I'm a laner getting shat on by someone freezing the lane, the enemy laner can just go destroy my ward as soon as they see me put it down and there's nothing I could do about it. Except hug my tower.

DptBearDec 28, 20141 votes

Or you pretended to put it down and caught them out of position trying to check it. And they had to move out of lane to get there anyway, makes it harder to freeze and farm well. If they are way ahead, there isn't much to do but hug tower and let it push after a wave.

UndeZyrableeDec 28, 20141 votes

I don't really understand. Its the same purpose as scanning it. If your argument is the laners can go kill it... well then neither side would have wards for the first 30 minutes. If you want that you can just play silver and bronze. I think I see where you are coming from, but as long as scanner has a shorter cool down than ward, and the wards do not super long, it should be fine.

DptBearDec 28, 20141 votes

What if the ward wasn't there? Then your scanner is down and the ward is still around somewhere...

Sir YamazukiDec 28, 20141 votes

You can get a buff that lets you kill a ward... and solo laners only get one free trinket at a time, you should be able to gank from more than one route if you actually jungle.

DptBearDec 29, 20141 votes

With the jungling being as rough at is it is, risking being further behind on farm for multiple stymied gank attempts is really bad.

HitsFromTheBombDec 28, 20141 votes

this is not a problem its called counter-vision ... watch a pro game and learn to play at a higher level.

this idea in no way works better then the system now , as said before wards will just be cleared by laners and become useless , just get a red scanner and actually buy wards like people who ward and know the power of vision do , i think youl find yourself winning more games dieing less and being ganked less..... and At which point you should be playing at/with higher plaveled players who know exactly how to counter vision and it will be a even match that is a lot more rewarding (imo) as your both using all the tools in the game at the highest of level.