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NEW WARDING META? POTENTIAL SOLUTION?

Jeika·10/29/2015, 6:22:20 AM·1 votes·406 views

Tl;Dr - Sight stone for laners

As someone who has played League of Legends for years and experienced the power not having a ward cap, where we are right now currently, patch 5.21, as an individual player the influence you can make due to vision is crippled, but as a mid laner warding with my support I feel I am able to achieve bare minimum ward coverage. (I understand riot is trying to make it a team job, I will go into that later)

Now this situation is 'ok' at best, but riot now intends to outright remove stealth wards due to a bug with them, and force players to use trinkets and vision wards. (I am unsure as to whether they intend on lowering the ward placement cap to 2 instead of 3, if they do so I think I may stop playing lol) however being reliant on trinkets as a solo laner isn't ideal and I think I have a solution;

Sight stone for laners

It has come to my attention that sight stone is already getting an upgrade, and I think making a sight stone for laners, particularly mid laners ;), would be nothing short of a great addition to the game. I understand the direction riot is headed with warding, making it a team effort, but why should players who want to go that further step be penalised? I would suggest a buildpath out of say, sight stone + fiendish codex to have a completed item with say 60-80 AP, 200-400 hp , 10-20% cdr and x wards. I think it would be a great addition to the game. That's of course not to say there shouldn't be one for top laners but I think it would also benefit junglers greatly, potentially a little too great, but as someone who fully appreciates and values the impact of warding, I think it could be a great alternative.

3 Comments

tplegs070810/29/2015, 6:32:51 AM1 votes

i could see their maybe being different build paths kinda like the machete... one sightstone for a mid would give ap top lanes would b either hp/armor or bruiser such would be like 15 ad and armor pen etc... however in your example the ap IMO was too much...im thinking 30 is max bcuz lets face it if u wanna add the ABILITY to make choices on your vision you have to sacrifice SOMETHING in this case your item slot to stack ap..

As i do agree with you on the simple fact that ONE single trinket ward is not enough for a mid laner....but simply put ik im not the highest rank or anything but as a "almost gold" i do freakin cartwheels when my team has more then 2 pinks on the map... and thats cuz i gotta beg someone.... a mid laner can pink one side then use trinket ward for other side if u WANT...

however.....lets be real here...keep ur 6th item slot maximize ur ap and ohhhh idkkkk.... kill an extra 4-5 minions and ummmm buy that precious green thing.... now u have a green ward at red side raptors trinket the river topside and pink bot side river....ur pretty safe and now should have some confidence if u need to role out to a certain side...

not to shoot ur idea down about laners getting it...but if MY adc got it....id b pissed...personally i think junglers and supps are enough thats possibiliy of 20 wards maximum and 16 of them being available at all times

tommyagun10/29/2015, 8:10:14 AM1 votes

It is nice that they trying to make it more team play but a problem is people who afk or troll will be a bigger now than before. Especially if you play rank and everyone rages at each other. I wish that they would have changed rank and the tier system. Giving you more lp when you win and reduce the amount you lose in half in the current state. WHy? Because im tired of winning a game getting 18 lp then lose a game in which I lose 20 lp. At least change rank into player performance, because you can get a s grade and still lose a game which is just sucks.