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Wards Win Games | Beginner/Advanced guide to Wards

Sager Wolfgang·4/17/2015, 3:03:07 PM·4 votes·8,330 views

What can Wards do and what are Wards? Wards can do a multitude of things, but some of the biggest ones are: -Knowing when the enemy team is taking objectives. Ex: Dragon or Baron. -Wards can let you know when you’re getting ganked.

  A big issue in League Of Legends is that you can’t always see the enemy. Wouldn’t it be better if you could see them almost all the time to help save your life from a gank or contest an objective? 

  How can Wards win games?

-Wards can help protect you from ganks so if you don’t die then you can stay on track and because you can keep an eye on objectives you can know when to take baron or dragon to help your team. -By knowing where the enemy is you can plan counter ganks or catch someone out and secure an easy kill.

  Something else you can do with wards are teleport onto them. Say the enemy team is taking dragon and you're in the top lane. Your team probably needs help, but it will take too long to walk. If there's a ward there you can teleport to it allowing you to get there nearly instantly. Something else that has been done with this is backdoor. Xpeke did a great job using teleport on a ward so he could win the game. 

  Wards are used to give vision to an area. For example: placing down a Warding totem in a bush will give you vision of the bush so you know if a wild Garen is in the bush even if you aren’t there! It will show you everything that is in the warded area. There are different kinds of wards;

-There are Stealth Wards -Vision Wards, and -Warding Totem.

  Stealth Wards and Warding Totem do the same thing, The only difference is the Warding totem lasts for 60 seconds whereas the Stealth Ward lasts 3 minutes and costs 75 Gold. You want to use a Warding totem when you need short term vision and place a Stealth ward for long term vision. Vision Wards give you the same vision as a Stealth ward, but it’s visible to the enemy team and will reveal any nearby Stealth wards or Warding Totems to allies. Vision Wards last forever but can be destroyed and cost 100 Gold. You want to use Vision Wards on high priority targets like Baron or Dragon. You might also want to place a vision ward where there is a known ward so your team can have ward control. 

  There are items that can let you place wards like the SightStone or Ruby SightStone. These place down Stealth Wards by consuming charges. You can replenish the charges by going back to base. Supports are the most common roles to buy a sightstone or ruby sightstone because they need to give vision of the bottom half of the jungle. But recently some junglers have been buying them for even more ward control. 

  Now let's talk about ward placement. There are areas that are high traffic zones or are more frequently used than other routes. By warding those, you give your team an edge. This map shows where to put what kind of ward. You don’t need to go out of your way to ward it but if you’re in the area it could prove beneficial to ward it. On the map, the green icons represent sight wards/warding totem and the pink icons represent vision wards.

                                                       http://imgur.com/zNDB0kO 
                                                        (Map will also be attached.)

  I hope this guide has shown you how valuable warding can be to help your team and win more games. I created this guide to help everyone in the league community understand the importance of warding and how it’s done. If you have any suggestions for other guides or I missed something in this guide feel free to drop a comment!

6 Comments

JimmyTheTacoMan4/17/2015, 4:02:57 PM2 votes

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GavinRuneblade4/18/2015, 2:25:47 AM2 votes

So i am the lone "no this didnt help" vote, let me explain why and hopefully you can help me, because i need it.

Not sure how to phrase this exactly, but as a new player I was hoping for more explanation and less definition. Most of your guide I could get just from looking at items in the store. What I need, and especially since you said advanced in the title, is strategy.

Let's look at the map. That is nice, sorta, but again, as I am a new player it reads like "place wards anywhere it doesn't matter" which I know is not your intent. I mean, nearly the whole map is covered with ward marks. How am I supposed to know which are more important locations and which less important? A map with fewer points ranked in priority, not by type of ward would be hugely helpful to me.

Or, ideally, multiple maps that show what locations are most important early-mid-and late game, possibly broken by role. Less mush everything into one graphic.

Your advice on baron and the dragons, that was good. I benefitted from that and understood what you were saying. Thank ypu.

But let's say I'm bottom lane and we are near the bend point... The map has 4 ward locations there, which is best under what circumstances? Your guide doesn't help me know that. Now I have reason to suspect the river is more important than the two outer bush points... But that's from my experience with jumglers not from anything you said in the guide or marked on the map. And my experience is limited so how do I know if I'm right?

Or, you say "You might also want to place a vision ward where there is a known ward so your team can have ward control." If wards are stealthed how do we know they are there in the first place? If we know the ward is present how does looking at the ward give us sight control or does following your instruction do something more? Because I can't see any value to warding an enemy ward other than looking at it. Shouldn't we remove the enemy ward to get sight control or am I totally misunderstanding?

The other thing is quantity. Wards cost, and the trinket has a cool down, so we can't just drop them everywhere. How many, how often is good?

We only get one red ward each right? When is too early to drop it? Better to cluster then all from the team in one area or spread them out?

Your guide doesn't help me know these answers.

So, yes it provides a good reminder to people to use wards, but as a guide, well maybe you could beef it up some?

I hope that helped you know where I was coming from and hope you understand why I said it didn't help me.

FoggyPaws4/18/2015, 4:36:38 AM1 votes

No love for item 3363 Why?

Sager Wolfgang5/22/2015, 3:39:24 PM1 votes

bump