Wardcounter
Hey there :)
A month ago i had an idea wich could improve the gameplay of League of Legends. I already made a discussion in the EUW boards (see link) and because most people (about 80%) liked my idea i thought it might be a good idea to share my idea in the NA boards, so that more people can tell me their thoughts about it. Ok? Here we go:
In the last time Riot has changed many things of the UI to make things like CDs on items to be more in focus of the player. And even in the future they are going to improve the UI so I thought about that a wardcounter might be a good tool for many players. In last time I played many games as support and in many cases i wasn't sure how many wards i have already placed or how many of them are still standing. I wasn't sure if I have a ward to place left or if i had to destroy another one wich might be well placed.
What shall the wardcounter do? It shall show, how many wards are currently placed. I know that there is already a counter in the mouse overlay on wards, trinkets and the sight stone but sometimes you dont have the time to pull your mouse over it (e.g. when you are trading with your opponents and u might want to ward a brush so you get vision on them but u dont want to destroy your main vision ward (e.g. in the river)). I guess that this feature could imporve the gameplay of many players (like me) especially the not high elo players who dont make a timer about all the wards they place.
How does the wardcounter look like? In my mind it simply looks like the "new" item cooldown icons wich Riot implemented some time ago. Simply an icon with the number of current wards in it. It could be placed next to these item cooldown icons or maybe it could be placed beside/abouve the map or the "champion picture" (there you could see it if you need it but it wont decrease the view on the gameplay).
Anouther solution could be to place (a second) number on the item in the itemsection beside your champion picture. Maybe on the right upper corner so it wont confuse with the stacks of the sightstone or the trinket.
Bonus: A nice to have bonus would be (if it would be possible to implement) to have a "timer" about how long the oldest ward is still standing. So if you have 3 wards placed but you placed the first of these wards 175 seconds ago (if they last 180 seconds (not sure about it atm)) you would see: "oh... my ward will be dead in a few secounds. it wont help at all anymore so i can place a new one." How it looks like: maybe just like a cooldown of an item on the new wardcounter icon.
I add some pictures so you guys see what i mean. Pls Vote if you like my idea or if not so that I see if you like my idea.
I hope you guys understood my english, if not tell me in the comments and i try to rephrase the parts you didnt understood.