Warding Tricks (Primarily for Supports)

Ilandria·Jul 2, 2015·1 votes·2,767 views

Hey hey!

Being a support main and having helped a few other players learn the ropes and a few little tricks, I figured I'd take some screenshots and share some of my favourite warding locations with the community. Some of these locations are known, no doubt about that. However, there are some really specific ward locations I have figured out that I either never or extremely rarely see other support players using. I'm not going over any of the super common ward spots here, just uncommon ones and other tricks!

I've added a description for every ward as to what it does and/or why I feel it's useful compared to just plopping a random ward down in the general area. Let me know if there are any cheeky wards you like to place and I can add them to the collection as well. Enjoy! :)

Edit: I should add, these wards work for both sides of the map - which is why I'm only showing them once!

9 Comments

Deep Terror NamiJul 2, 20151 votes

I like to go into the Dragon pit (when I start purple side of course. Right is purple ya?) and ward the bush behind the Red camp. You need the trinket range mastery to do it though.

IlandriaJul 2, 20151 votes

Yah that's one of my fav as well, sadly though I don't take that mastery on supports because it doesn't benefit sightstone range, and I generally get rid of my warding trinket on my first recall. Here's to wishing that mastery affected sightstone too (it probably doesn't purely because LeeSin Jax actually build sightstone a lot while jungling and the extra dash range would send tales of horror echoing throughout Runeterra).

I can definitely add that one though! :D Also, with that same mastery the Scarra ward works very easily. Without that mastery it's possible, but so darn hard on the new map that I can't even do it consistently after literally 400+ wards of practice lol.

Deep Terror NamiJul 2, 20151 votes

Ya I basically only use it for that first ward, either that one or the tribush. Tribush can be done without, but it's a bigger pain. The one by Red can simply be done by making sure your indicator turns green so you know it'll go in the bush.

What's the Scarra ward? Maybe the tribush one I just said? I don't even attempt it from the pit (either one) unless I absolutely have to, otherwise I go the long way around and put it on the edge from the direction of the lane.

IlandriaJul 2, 20151 votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCisMmgkcgk <- the legendary Scarra ward.

Before the map update it was easy to do once you learned where to stand and click (stand on the reeds and click the sign squiggle). Now it's near impossible unless you have a trinket and the range increase mastery.

In terms of the red one yah it's easy if you normal cast the ward because of the cursor colour, I just wish the mastery affected sightstone because it would open up a lot of really sneaky warding tricks for support (mostly with being able to stay in fog of war and warding without being spotted), but they'd need to worry about some ward-jumping champs abusing it.

Deep Terror NamiJul 2, 20151 votes

yup that one lol. Hate it so much. That bush needs a ward magnet or something XD

Deep Terror NamiJul 2, 20151 votes

Go right to the very edge, hold down your trinket hotkey over the bush, and once it turns green you can drop it. With the mastery you can get it in the bush; perfect for a safer invade!

Only Play DariusJul 2, 20151 votes

Thank you very much. Warding is something not officially covered in any in-house resources, despite how important it is to the game. This makes learning how to properly ward a challenge, as you practically have to teach yourself. Which is why i'm so grateful that you went in detail about effective ward locations to help ease the grind for all of us.

It only takes one millisecond of vision on the enemy to make a game-changing pick and turn the battle around.

IlandriaJul 2, 20151 votes

Not a problem at all, I made this specifically for the reasons you stated! Thanks for the awesome feedback. :)

Nicorus Jul 2, 20151 votes

One tip is to ward the enemy raptors, if the opponent jungler smites that camp, you have just voided the jungle creep bonus, it also gives your mid lane a heads up of a potential gank.