DUDE! i looked through my history, i think the best game was where I and my team placed around 60 wards. What a difference!!! they place a ward averaging every 45 seconds and that's low.... makes you rethink vision!
disregardable1 votesTo be honest, I don't really think soloqueue merits that many wards almost all of the time. The odds of the enemy team coordinating, taking a risk to surprise you, and then actually succeeding is just low.
ValyrianBlade2 votesI can agree that 99 wards is a bit many, but having games where your 5 man team has individually dropped 9, 7, 6, 6, and 2, wards is pretty darned bad.
I'd say my reasonably long games have 50-60 wards placed and we have reasonable vision control, although we still get caught out at times and having an extra 10-20 wards placed may have saved us from some bad encounters.
It's almost undeniable how important vision is. At times I feel like my biggest contribution as a jungler is that after my first recall I grab a pink ward and between that and my trinket get vision in both rivers early. Just my last game it resulted in a kill on the enemy jungler, a couple successful ganks, and a dragon. Vision isn't given nearly enough credit. I actually still wish there was some way for vision to grant assists (as someone who loves getting a Jinx ult kill on someone recalling in a warded bush, I wish I knew which teammate got the ward there).
KDragonL1 votesIf you click on the ward and your mouse over the buff on it you can see who placed it.
ValyrianBlade1 votesOh that's cool. I'd equally like the teammate to get credit from our allies/enemies too though. Like when I make a cross-map ultimate and everyone (including the enemies because we're having a fun game) makes comments crediting me for a nice shot and it's like "I bet Janna really would appreciate some credit for placing that ward there too."
Thanks for the tip though! Will definitely try that!
Ice Weasel X1 votesThe reason their ward counts are so high is that they are very deliberate about their vision. They don't just scatter the wards and leave them long term. If they're hitting an objective, they prep the area surrounding it. Moving to the next objective? Surround it with wards. Not focusing a specific objective? Wide coverage to watch the jungle. Post laning, they rarely stay in one location so long that wards get a chance to expire by time.
