Upgrading trinkets isnt always useful

IVIyth·May 19, 2015·3 votes·921 views

If you aren't going to use the trinket anyways why spend the gold on the upgrade? Just played a game where ashe was telling people to upgrade their trinkets when she only placed 4 wards

19 Comments

LyrMay 19, 20155 votes

Whether or not you use the trinket does not correlate to it's usefulness.

IVIythMay 19, 20151 votes

If you dont use the trinket why did you spend the 250g on it?

FewtasMay 19, 20152 votes

Also, did you check to see if she had item 3342 instead of item 3340 ? ADC's should normally get the orb simply for the extra protection it provides.

JustGotFiredMay 19, 20151 votes

How does the orb provide extra protection? I don't really use it so idk.

SiachiMay 19, 20154 votes

My understanding is, because it's longer range, you can use it to check bushes farther away without having to get close enough to put down a ward (In which case some champs can easily jump on you from that range).

Could be wrong, but that's what I've gathered from it's use

FewtasMay 19, 20151 votes

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How does the orb provide extra protection? I don't really use it so idk.

Because you can scout with it. I recently just switched from being a jungle main to an ADc main so I've ran into several situations where its been useful. The most obvious was in one of my games I was on a 8 kill spree for my team, while they had a mildly fed zed. I had just been farming bot lane and my team was up near turret. There was a point on the map on the way to them where our vision wasn't they greatest so I used the orb and I saw Zed hiding in a bush, so I decided to back. Its also helpful for scouting to see if dragons up.

JustGotFiredMay 20, 20151 votes

Ah, I usually just get upgraded yellows cuz you can't go wrong with more wards. Sometimes you get the supports that don't ward too.

IVIythMay 19, 20151 votes

Yes she had the upgraded yellow trinket

LuggMay 19, 20152 votes

Upgrading your trinket is ALWAYS useful. You can never have enough vision and if you get the Greater Vision Totem, you can deny vision as well. Map control is essential, wards do equal wins in the vast majority of games.

IVIythMay 19, 20151 votes

Wasting gold on an item you don't use is not very useful and it was the yellow upgrade not the pink upgrade

LuggMay 19, 20151 votes

Upgrading an item that can win you the game is never a waste of gold.

By the way, the Greater Vision Totem is a yellow upgrade that basically gives you a free pink every 3 minutes. The other yellow upgrade lets you drop a stealth ward about every minute. Both are great.

PisdovMay 19, 20151 votes

4 wards = 300 gold trinket upgrade = 250g

50g is useful. It also doesn't take up an inventory slot, so who is to say Ashe would have even placed those 4 without it?

IVIythMay 19, 20151 votes

That is also not taking into account if she put any wards down with the basic warding trinket. Basic trinket wards only last 1/3 of the time so assuming that is 25 gold if she placed 2 wards before the upgrade and 2 after she paid 250g for 175 gold worth of vision

RandomoniumMay 19, 20151 votes

I don't understand your point. All items are not useful if you don't use them. That doesn't mean you shouldn't upgrade the trinket.

IVIythMay 19, 20151 votes

Thats exactly my point, if you dont use it it isnt useful so why spend the gold on an item you dont use?

EffectFXMay 19, 20151 votes

Whether or not a trinket is used, is irrelevant to how useful upgrading trinkets is.

Noisemaker5May 19, 20151 votes

Now here is where ashe is goal here is to increase vision all around so tell people to upgrade it is not that bad. what i think he trying to get at that she is being hypocrite by telling people to place wards when she had the upgrading warding trinket and only place 4(which is really sad by the way). now to say if you not going to place the wards why would you want to upgrade it in the first it is a waste of money if you not smart enough place them down.(even though you should place the wards down). over all i think he was getting at that this ashe is dumb.i would like to say i don't know the whole story of this situation so i can only say want i information is present to me.

BeatzBoyFTWMay 20, 20151 votes

Because we're getting tired of your "Help me noob, Im getting camped" bullsh'it.

IcyPepperMay 20, 20151 votes

I think you misunderstand, OP.

The problem isn't that people upgrade the trinket and don't use it, it's the fact they don't use it that's the problem. At least when they upgrade it, it's available, but the problem lies with them and not the upgrade.

I think a better title would have been "Not using your upgraded trinket makes it useless" and you could have advocated using it more instead of don't buy it if you aren't going to use it.