[Ability Concepts] Ward Manipulation
Currently we have a handful of champions that interact with wards, most of which either grant vision of stealthed units or move a champion to a ward (Lee W or Katarina E), but there are no abilities that manipulate wards in more interesting ways.
I would like to propose some ways of manipulating wards that could be interesting and unique.
Passive Skills:
Damaging Wards: Upon being placed, wards cast a one time nova dealing magic damage.
Damaging Trinkets: Upon casting a trinket, ward trinket releases a nova dealing magic damage, blue and red trinket deal minor damage over time in their area of effect. Not really a ward manipulation passive, but still similar in nature, different, and interesting
Unlimited Vision: Removes the cap on ward placement, but ward duration is based on number of wards placed (wards last 3/x where x is the number of wards placed by this champion currently on the map, ability does not change the secondary resource quantity of a ward, but rather dilates its consumption). Pink wards would count towards ward duration length for the purposes of balance.
Increased Range: Range at which a ward can be cast is increased by distance per level.
Active Skills:
Ward Swapping: User changes place with a ward and triggers some effect upon swapping places.
Moving Wards: Ability moves the nearest ward a distance towards the mouse, healing friendly units and damaging enemies it passes through, or some other effect while in motion, maybe revealing stealthed units while in motion.
Exploding Wards:
Targeting a ward causes it to explode, dealing damage based on how much time is left in its duration (green) or dealing damage in a small radius and revealing stealth in a large radius (pink).
Ward Pulsing:
Activating this ability causes wards to release a vision nova, temporarily granting increased vision range and/or granting vision of stealth units, dealing damage, providing heals, providing shields, pick some other effect, you get the idea.
Ultimate Skills:
Will add such skills here based on comments, as I cannot think of anything fitting as an ultimate beyond copying Syndra's ult, which would be boring and take away from the uniqueness of Syndra's kit.