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Raise Max Wards

Supp Hero·8/4/2015, 8:21:03 AM·1 votes·841 views

I usually support and I frequently end up being the only one on my team who wards, with maybe 1 or 2 others placing a ward with their normal trinket. I feel 3 wards max is low.

With a team total of 15 wards max, it seems like a lot of wards being placed - at almost every ganking/ or bush route someone might take. However, that's only when your entire team is warding, which is rare. I feel the ward max should be raised to 4-6 per person, even if it means slightly lowering duration/ raising cost.

If your entire team wards, that's 20-30 wards active at a given time - which would definitely cover any possible ganking/bush routes, but that is only in a perfect warding situation when your entire team is warding. To counter this, improve Revealing Trinket and other items that reveal wards so it is easier to clean up/ detect enemy wards.

Another suggestion that is odd and probably wouldn't work is that you could have a limit on wards based on the entire team. The whole team is limited to 20 wards total, no matter who's placing them it adds to this total.

9 Comments

Supp Hero8/4/2015, 8:28:04 AM1 votes

Lol 4 downvotes and no one reply saying why the ward limit is fine as it is. Not that you were going to explain your reasoning anyways

Deep Terror Nami8/4/2015, 8:32:09 AM1 votes

Riot doesn't want the whole map to be lit up. The jungle is supposed to be dangerous to go through if you don't know where the enemy is.

If the problem is that your team isn't warding, then that is their failure and they'll pay for it until they learn better.

Cruk8/4/2015, 8:32:53 AM1 votes

Riot makes changes based off high level play, lower elo dont place wards because well.. you know. May come as a surprise but vision is indeed OP, but being able to place more wards on the map is just too much, you cant get roams off, denying vision with oracles being nerfed is harder, and just all around vision isnt a big problem in higher level play. Plus you dont need more wards, you just need to know where to place them, around which objectives at what time of the game. You even see in high level play jungle mains buying sightstone constantly with the support, and yeah everyone gets a free trinket, vision is in a pretty decent spot right now, dont fix what aint broke.

Gordo San8/4/2015, 8:33:49 AM1 votes

I think the point is that you cannot cover everything.

You can only cover the areas that you want to control for a certain period of time, then you need to restock on wards.

And at max wards, the team total is 20 not 15. Including pink wards :^)