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Supports, stop buying sightstone last minute

HorusEye··2 votes·1,098 views

I don't care if you're going Annie , it does not mean shit if you rushed AP builds & fed off 5 kills and lose a turret, and sightstone at this point will seems worthless & won't benefit much with the fed enemy ADC & jungler dominating the map wherever they go, all thanks to your selfish lack of map vision purchase.

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Live2LetDie7 votes

by the looks of it you never buy wards yourself. take your own advice and invest in some vision.

HorusEye1 votes

I'm not playing this account, my other account got temporarily banned from Boards for a misunderstood toxicity. And dont give me that "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" crap....

Ih8ucuzurtoxic4 votes

Toxic is toxic.

residentshooter4 votes

It's not the support job to ward, yes they are expected to buy it but if they can get a couple wardsearly with out sight stone and everyone upgrading their trinks then vison shouldn't be a problem. I hate when someone complain about vision but at the end of game they placed less then five. I can easily place more wards then a sup once I get that trink upgrade.

Lugg2 votes

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It's not the support job to ward,

Please tell me you are joking.

Big Hans3 votes

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Please tell me you are joking.

Everybody has the same ward limit. 4 wards is not enough to cover anything. That means everybody has to ward and warding is not something specifically a support must do. Warding is equally required of everyone. Especially because every other role has more money to actualy buy wards.

Lugg1 votes

I agree that it is everyones responsibility, but I feel lucky if even one of my team upgrades their trinket. Laners will only ward their lane, that is why it's important for the support and jungler to place forward wards so you can see what the enemy is doing and where they are rotating too. This helps keep your team from dying and getting ganks on the other team.

Roaranor1 votes

Then you should be badgering your teammates to upgrade their trinkets for the 250 gold it takes given their massive gold income as opposed to specifically zeroing out the one role that has to spend 800 gold with minimum gold income.

If every lane covers their lane only, that's still more than enough vision to see the enemy coming in any lane (or counterjungle) early on and everyone is a happy camper. If a support decides to simply pick up 1 or 2 wards and buy another item over sightstone, they're still warding and there's nothing wrong with that. Theirs paired with the wars I just know you're buying since you gripe so much about them is more than enough.

KR LEE S1N2 votes

Sometimes when I play brand, morgana, and annie I choose to buy ap on my first back if we are ahead because I can snowball our advantage. However I would leave the fountain also with a pink or 2 green wards also. I think this can be smart to do a lot because sometimes you just don't need the health right away, and you can do more dmg and keep vision. After I get some ap my next back is always a sighstone.

It's a smilier concept to rushing boots. If i want to roam after I back because my adc is terribad and I tell him to take krugs or gromp real fast while I buy mobility boots and get a gank off mid. This is all how I carry as support. The first buy is situational and not always a sightstone. However if I don't buy sighstone first I need to buy some green wards and a pink.

TMIT2 votes

It is everyone's job to ward, and I'd prefer a support pick one up late than never. Vision of objectives and opposing jungle is relevant until the game is over.

It's still amazing how inexpensive the ward trinket upgrade is yet people still don't get it ASAP in many cases (support with sightstone should probably dump it in favor of de-warding though). Still, 6-8 of these means vision of objectives/mid bushes and some of the opposing jungle, with extra ward purchase here or there. Yet when I'm support sometimes my wards are 3 of 4 placed or when I'm top I have 2/3 of the wards our team has placed even though I only have the tier 2 trinket <_<. Those games are thankfully not too common but really vision is important enough that every role has responsibility for it.

Granted, feeding is never great, but Annie picking up some early damage items is defensible even if going 0-5 and turret diving isn't lol.

PikaCHU5672 votes

Even if you have 60 gold after buying a BF Sword, you can wait for a few secs and buy that ward. Is it that hard to help out your support?

IndianHippie1 votes

I always buy sightstone my first recall to base.

Tsen1 votes

Support Annie. http://i.imgur.com/HGy5grz.jpg

Sometimes it's okay to sell the sightstone for more power >:D (Though it should still be rushed for early game map control)

The situation above was because 4/5 team mates were all auto attack heavy ad champs vs a rammus.

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