Buying this item after your core and obviously you're not the support/ADC
What do you think about it?
In which cases is this viable?
Does anyone have this as a standard for certain games?
(Just in case, this is my smurf in NA, I play on the LAN server, pls no ragerino/haterino, I'm curious of your answers)
It would be beautiful if as a toplaner i could figure out how to effectively put a sightstone in my build early and it not put me behind. Basically if top lane and bottom lane had a sightstone you would always have vision of the entire mid river. It would be beautiful. I think if anything many toplaners would be able to do it better than the midlane, as most have the most maneuverability.
Junglers with a lot of map mobility and/or counterjungling speed is definitely amazing to have.
Not to mention, now you're near guaranteed to have at least 6 wards on the map at a given time vs only 3.
I think sightstone on a jungler is a good thing to have. When I'm playing lanes, I typically just use my trinket and buy some wards and maybe a pink. I know that I do not ward as much as I should, but I'm low elo so no one does lol. Also, I typically only put much effort into warding if getting ganked is a problem. It is nice on junglers, though, since supports cannot effectively ward enough of the map.
a team that has 2-3 sight stones late game will have a huge advantage over a team that does not, they will have maphacks pretty much, only problem is this is solo q.
inb4 sightstone on jungle Lee Sin. Did you ever watch Worlds and see their new ward meta?? 5 trinkets. Then Jungler and Support with Sightstone. Then sell trinket for four freaking sweepers. Like wow. Then ADC sells trinket for Scrying Orb. The only thing they did all match, was place 120 wards and destroy 40 wards per match. Warding>Fighting. Ward to win. lol. So many wards and sweepers. I thought of trying that, but not sure if it'd work in solo/duo ranked queue. "Hey guys. I'll also get a sightstone so 3 of you get sweepers". Depends if they'd listen or not.
It's a bad idea if you're a damage carry. The hp is wasted since ideally you shouldn't be taking much, if any, damage at all. You need to use about 11 wards before the SS pays for itself, and 800 gold now is more valuable than 800 gold later.
If you're a jungler, winning fights generally comes down to "it's a 2v1" rather than "we have better items than you," so sightstones can be pretty solid on junglers. That said, if you're picking up most of the kills as a jungler and your teammates are only getting assists at best, you want to build damage to snowball your lead since your teammates won't be able to get the same advantage that you can.
I kind of like the concept of making it more valuable to non supports, because it is a good item. Mostly, it seems only like it would be worth getting on utility junglers right now, and not even that much considering that two jungle items already give free wards. Overall I'd like to see it made a better option, but right now it just isn't that amazing.
