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Smartping option to indicate enemy wards...

Auturgist··173 votes·4,007 views

A smartping option to indicate enemy wards would be great. It would help laners communicate quickly to their jungler whether or not they are wasting their time sitting in a bush that is warded waiting to gank. It would also help communicate to people with sweepers where to use them.

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Jakethenight20 votes

The current Danger smartping can go, we already have the Careful/Caution ping, and Danger serves the same purpose. If it does go, they can replace it with the ward ping.

Crownsy9 votes

The current Danger smartping can go, we already have the Careful/Caution ping, and Danger serves the same purpose. If it does go, they can replace it with the ward ping.

yea, I've never understood the point in game of those two being separate. I mean, I get it as a "one means careful, one means LOOK OUT!" distinction, but in game, they get used interchangeably.

Spacesuit Spiff3 votes

The current Danger smartping can go, we already have the Careful/Caution ping, and Danger serves the same purpose. If it does go, they can replace it with the ward ping.

yea, I've never understood the point in game of those two being separate. I mean, I get it as a "one means careful, one means LOOK OUT!" distinction, but in game, they get used interchangeably.

Only use I've really had for it was in bronze, spamming it every time our adc decided to go solo facecheck every bush in the enemy jungle. I swear that ping wins more bronze games than any amount of mechanics could.

But in seriousness, this is a great idea. I'd be fine giving up Danger and Assist Me (which nobody seems to use anymore, just blue pings)

ˆayy19 votes

I use assist me :(

Doominator1010 votes

+1 for the assist me club

bradles7 votes

i use it :(

Mandaari1 votes

I don't think that they're used interchangeably. I use danger to give people awareness of people that are coming, but not necessarily to retreat. I use the retreat ping for that.

Hojo Lodis4 votes

Danger ping (red one) more used to signal that enemy is there or something.

While the caution one (yellow one) is being used a lot more to tell your allies to get out asap.

TotalJerk1 votes

It's like a green/red/yellow light system; I use yellow to mean "proceed with caution" while red is for whenever I want to completely warn my ally off something.

Stexe1 votes

The current Danger smartping can go, we already have the Careful/Caution ping, and Danger serves the same purpose. If it does go, they can replace it with the ward ping.

That's what I use the Danger ping for already. I'll usually say "Danger means ward."

Arveanor1 votes

Danger smartping? I always hear people talking about the redundant pings, but I've never used, or I suppose realized there exists, a danger smartping, I just use ctrl + click to ping people its time to go or some other similar warning.. Is this danger smartping like drag up or something?

Jakethenight2 votes

It's the red one when you Alt/Ctrl+click+drag up. Its the same thing as Alt+Click except louder and red.

Anrui1 votes

I don't use the yellow caution pings at all. I use danger pings all the time, they are more noticeable imo and pretty much is the same thing

TrulyBland10 votes

I think the biggest benefit of this would be to chat restricted players and with that it also would benefit their teams. Currently, to unambiguously tell someone that some position is warded you HAVE to use chat.

Crownsy9 votes

As a Support main, I approve.

right now you have to ping it, then type "ward there" or "ward" which sometimes leads to "I should ward there or there is a ward there?" ect.

Would be nice if i could just smart ping "enemy ward" or "ward" on a bush.

Edbwn2 votes

A band-aid fix to your problem could be to ping and say "warded" when an enemy wards there. Just a tip :D

But yeah, I agree, a ping like this would be nice!

DrCyanide2 votes

But you could get around that with existing pings.

Caution + Ward is fairly simple for enemy wards Assist me + Ward is fairly simple for asking for a ward to be placed

Kurru Mitsumi5 votes

yes! adding in a item 3341 ping and a item 2044 ping would be great, we need more upvotes!!

CoolKnightST4 votes

It would be intressting:

  • Targetting an area: Enemy ward has been placed in that area
  • Targetting an enemy ward: Enemy ward here
  • Targetting an ally ward: Ward in danger
  • Targetting an enemy champion: Enemy is missing an ward
  • Targetting an ally champion: Requesting assistance on clearing vision
  • Selftarget: I have no wards left

Also:

  • Targetting an area: Whe need a ward in this area
  • Targetting an ally ward: Our ward is almost expired
  • Targetting an enemy champion: Whe need vision over this champion
  • Targetting an ally champion: player A request vision from player B
  • Selftarget: I have wards left
TeemoJenkins3 votes

This thread comes up every week, I would search for the historical ones and link them here.

DeynaTaggerung2 votes

I guess people just keep wanting to bring it up until riot changes something or acknowledges the request. Either that or lots of people keep thinking it up independently.

Edbwn1 votes

Oh, Riot has noticed. They've strongly considered implementing it, and someday they might. But they have their reasons for not having done it by now.

DrCyanide2 votes

The reason I saw posted was muscle memory. They flipped the left and right ping internally before the system went live, but apparently some Rioters still have the muscle memory for the original ping system that we never saw.

Edbwn1 votes

I honestly feel like it would take a while to adjust, however they made it, but I think it could be feasibly done and people could get used to it after a while!

UPfreely3 votes

as someone who finds typing while playing distracting, i agree

SunflowerFox2 votes

That would be amazing. I get tired of saying "river bush warded" etc.

SlackerboyTC2 votes

smartpinging exists?

warpenguin5551 votes

yes need this

MeBuffULongTime1 votes

I agree, any type of ward ping would be awesome, and yeah we don't need two different pings that more or less mean the same thing. They are interchangeable and redundant. RITO Please! :D

AbodyHUN6661 votes

They should really add it.

Surr20plz1 votes

Yes Pls

FarRockBF1 votes

Pls do this.

Kha Zix Got Hops1 votes

idk

clickhead1 votes

I wish there was a sort of Flag system. Like you ping somewhere to say an enemy ward is suspected to be there and your allies can see a small icon on the minimap and even in the game where you pinged until you remove it, but they can also remove it from their view themselves.

LeeDark2 votes

Too open to trolling. I don't want to have to keep removing someone else's flags because the covered the minimap in them every time they could use it.

Champion Skin1 votes

You could have a limit of 3 flags or something like that and they should probably have a 3 min counter or just disappear after 3 min

RoyaiChaos1 votes

There was actually some ward ping icons a while back on the PBE, I don't know what happened to them though :I

patmax173 votes

http://www.surrenderat20.net/2014/07/731-pbe-update.html

the pings were added at end of july and removed again a week later. I really hope they eventually get implemented :)

DraegonSpawn1 votes

Make one side like right side ward, then off of that is splits over to warded/needs a ward. This would give the most basic info that matters most. imo. also let the warded ping stay for 60 seconds, only 1 per player.

SeeingClear1 votes

What about feed the PORO. It needs to tell the other team too :/

Brado111 votes

Bump. RIOT NOW I COULD NOT AGREE MORE

Demonsolder211 votes

RIOT PLEASE

NamesRHard1 votes

Up voted and bump for great justice

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