TL;DR: I ramble on a lot. How can I get my teammates to purchase vision wards more often?
Hey... As a jungler who struggles to get teams to place pink wards... What would you suggest? With vision being much more limited lately... I'm just really sad to see that even supports aren't buying pinks...
I'm really tempted to just include a sightstone in every build regardless of the situation, because vision is probably going to be more important than damage or resistances. And a sightstone does make me more healthy anyway.
Last 4 games I played, there were 0 deaths. That's because I play a mechanically simple champion, and the only way I've been able to get better at playing this champ, is by learning how to better play league as a whole. I make a lot of good decisions, but running into people who don't make good decisions, and even when asked nicely, won't change... It'd be an understatement to say it's frustrating. Luckily I don't get angry, but it's very irksome.
I'm not blaming my team at all... A lot of times, as the jungler, I'll end up being the team leader, and I'll guide the other 4 with use of pings and such. When my flash and smite are down, and someone tells me to ward the dragon... I already know the entire other team is there, and my team is scattered, so we won't be able to test it, I don't even have a ward charge, and then 5 seconds later the dragon is slain... I don't really know what to do or say when I've got a team of people like that.
Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you get a Yi top lane that's got the enemy jungler in his bush, and he keeps pushing forward instead of retreating. His health is nearly 0 because he just lot a battle to his opposing laner, but he refuses to retreat. I've got to run over and waste my time to scare off the enemy jungler so he isn't ganked and killed. Or when, somehow, two games in a row you get the same guy playing top lane, pushing his lane to the enemy turret, and refusing to ward his river bush at all... He got ganked roughly half a dozen times each game. He died each time. I'd go out of my way to ward for him.
I know there's that whole, "low elo blames their team and not themselves for defeats"... Yeah definitely, sometimes I do that. Sometimes it is my fault. But how can I get around those sorts of situations? I feel powerless when someone is making a bad decision, and won't listen to anyone else.
Never outright flamed anyone. I am usually very friendly in chat. I'm sure some people don't like being told what to do... I don't like it when someone tells me I'm playing wrong or building wrong... Like when the enemy poppy throws me over two walls, and my whole team looks at me, and then yells at me for running away and letting them die. People are so quick to point fingers... without knowing half of what I'm doing while I'm playing. Mid lane is angry at me for afk farming and not participating in fights, except I just respawned because I died in a fight, and before that I had fought in two battles, back to back. I'm sorry I'm not participating in the fights you're in, but that doesn't mean I'm not doing anything.
Doing what I can to learn the game and get better, but the biggest thing I want to accomplish right now is finding a way to get my lanes to buy pinks before getting ganked. If the enemy jungler is a Rengar, and you let your bot lane know where he's going to gank them from and that they'll need a pink ward there to be safe... then your bot lane ignores the advice and proceeds to get ganked from that bush 4 times over the course of the time... I only have 1 pink ward to place, and where I had been placing it prevented mid lane from being ganked by rengar multiple times, because mid lane wasn't placing a pink either. Sometimes I'm lucky enough to play with a Gold ranked friend of mine who does buy 1-2 pinks in a game. Most Gold ranked players I've come across don't buy pinks, though