Just F*cking Ward

RIP Resonance·Sep 24, 2015·33 votes·2,370 views

Please. Just ward. I main support, and I'm used to placing at least one ward per minute of every game minimum. When I see games where we're losing because people are too selfish to buy arguably the best item in the game ! It's only 250 Gold and is basically a sightstone that doesn't take up an item slot. Do you realize how OP this even is, and how many kills you can avoid feeding? At level nine, this item should be a priority in my opinion. should also be prioritized; making sure you have one on the map at all times is my personal preference. I am not good at League of Legends, but I have won many games due to wards. You can spare 250 Gold or 100 Gold to make sure the enemy doesn't get 300 from ganking you.

42 Comments

Singing LarkSep 24, 20154 votes

When you're the jungler with sweeper, the only ward on the map is the single pink ward you slapped down by the enemy red even though your support has sightstone already, and you don't have enough money on your back to get more wards.

The struggle is real. item 3070

Battlecast SonaSep 24, 20156 votes

I played a game with a Soraka who bought Sightstone first back but was 0/3 wards placed the whole rest of the game. Like... you have to USE that item for it to be useful, not just let it sit in your inventory. Pls.

gg git diffSep 25, 20153 votes

Whaaaat? The 150 HP is totally worth it!

DazedOnlookerSep 25, 20152 votes

When you place a pink ward in the enemy jungle, and then one of the enemy team members place a green right next to your's and don't bother killing your pink so its there for like the next 3mins, and even your own support(who still insist on not warding) just walks right past it instead of killing it........but its okay because that's the only ward the enemy team place as well..

Well FFS i guess i could use an extra 10g.

Singing LarkSep 25, 20151 votes

A played a game once where I was up against an Amumu. I slapped down a pink ward at his red around 3 minutes into the game and kept a regular ward by his blue consistently. He walked past the pink multiple times and the ward lasted for a good 15-20 minutes. So for the whole early game, I knew when he was walking around his buffs and counterjungled/ganked accordingly.

At some point he finally facechecked that bush with the pink and realized why I knew what he was doing the whole time. He learned afterwards and checked that bush more often for the rest of the game, but it was seriously hilarious while it lasted.

LintheSep 25, 20152 votes

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He walked past the pink multiple times and the ward lasted for a good 15-20 minutes.

This is so money. I love when this happens.

DazedOnlookerSep 26, 20151 votes

I too consider this the wards version of freelo xD

Yxion the YordleSep 24, 20152 votes

That is why I like playing DrMundo Garen Gnar Katarina Vladimir Zac because you can build a item 2045 and a item 3362 or item 3364 and it not necessarily hurt your build. (I know LeeSin can use it too, I just don't play him.)

Problem is people are too tunnel-visioned on getting their core items to realize they could get them faster with a small investment in vision. More vision = more awareness = less risk = more gold.

I like playing Garen with item 1028 start top, and getting item 2049 my first back. I am buying item 2044 all laning phase anyways, might as well have free rest of the game.

DazedOnlookerSep 24, 20151 votes

I really do with there were more players like you helping out with wards even though your not a support/jungler.... +1

Battlecast SonaSep 24, 20151 votes

I'd even be happy with players buying 1-2 greens or a pink every back until level 9 and getting item 3361

Since it's basically sightstone without taking up a slot (and without having to return to base), I don't understand why more people don't utilize it.

Trash MammaISep 24, 20152 votes

~~An Ally Has been Slain~~

Vayne Omg, we need wards Thresh I have 3 SS wards and a pink out Vayne Team ward plz

Everyone on team has yet to upgrade their trinket 30+ minutes into the game

Seriously, I hate that shit so much. Is it REALLY that painful to upgrade your damn trinkets

HabitzSep 25, 20151 votes

It's painful when you hear consumables being purchased but still no trinket upgrade

Taric the GaySep 24, 20152 votes

Emerald for insight item 2044

Chor grunkularSep 24, 20151 votes

I can't up vote t huh is enough, I won a games just last night where I was kha jungle amd bought more wards than the support; and we won because of that vision. I even warded mid and top in the mid game just to help them out.

WARDS WIN WARS!

Forsaken1Sep 24, 20151 votes

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I can't up vote t huh is enough, I won a games just last night where I was kha jungle amd bought more wards than the support; and we won because of that vision. I even warded mid and top in the mid game just to help them out.

WARDS WIN WARS!

its sad you have to do this- its even worse when you have to ping for them.

DazedOnlookerSep 24, 20153 votes

^ I'm a support main, but even in other roles i end up having to do this....its very disappointing, and often makes me want to give up.....

HabitzSep 24, 20151 votes

I don't mind pinging for them. What I hate is when they don't listen.

OZ3 FreelanceSep 24, 20151 votes

I cannot agree with you more, The fact that people dont understand how valuable vision is just flat out scares me. Many times people will leave base with a few hundred gold after buying items, why not just by a item 2043 item 2044 . You can make that gold up in less the one wave and having the vision means that you could farm longer because you would see other things outside of your lane.

LintheSep 24, 20151 votes

You are preaching to the support choir.

CatastropSep 24, 20151 votes

http://i.imgur.com/R0S5hN5.png?1

This was a nice game. I like when the graph is evenly distributed and I'm not responsible for practically my entire team's Ward coverage. I wish I could say this was a common occurrence but it's not. Sometimes I even find myself warding even more than the support when I go midlane.

HabitzSep 24, 20152 votes

I love the maps where it's clear warding was a contributing factor to the win.

HabitzSep 24, 20151 votes

And get a vision ward on your first b no matter what, if it's a Vayne in the enemy team hold it for her ult until you can upgrade scanner.

DazedOnlookerSep 25, 20152 votes

I absolutely LOVE saving a pink ward just to be able to nullify these champs who rely on stealth.

Waiting on the loading screen and sees any one of these champs: Shaco Talon Akali Teemo Rengar Nocturne Vayne

Lulu "Oh yes, i know what item i'm getting ASAP just for you bby >:) " item 2043 x infinity

Almost had an enemy Shaco (who was behind because of this)"GG AFK" because he would go invis w/ a clone and immediately get deleted anyway because i was already ready to toss a pink on him once he "disappeared".

HabitzSep 25, 20152 votes

Rengar especially, just having that vision cancels his ability to leap right? And it also works for lb's passive I think. Love watching an akali that doesn't realize everyone can see her haha

DazedOnlookerSep 25, 20151 votes

Oh wow i had NO IDEA that vision on ren could cancel his leap. i had noticed only 1 or 2 times that whenever i used a pink on him he would just continue "running" all the way up to us and attacking instead of pouncing but i never put any thought into why. This new info will prove to be more useful next time i face one again. >:D

HabitzSep 25, 20151 votes

What have I done lol. "This bonus lasts for 0.5 seconds upon exiting brush or stealth. Unseen Predator occurs regardless of whether or not his target has Sight icon sight of him." So you have to use it a good sec before he's close enough to leap.

AtlanisSep 25, 20151 votes

Sight ward doesn't removed his stealth, it only lets you see through it. So placing a pink doesn't cancel his leap or make it last only 0.5s, it just lets you beat his face in before he can.

HabitzSep 25, 20152 votes

I felt smart for 3 hours and nothing can take that away from me Heimerdinger

slôwSep 26, 20151 votes

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Oh wow i had NO IDEA that vision on ren could cancel his leap. i had noticed only 1 or 2 times that whenever i used a pink on him he would just continue "running" all the way up to us and attacking instead of pouncing but i never put any thought into why. This new info will prove to be more useful next time i face one again. >:D

Thats not at all how it works... Rengar's leap is not a stealth mechanic, its a bush mechanic.

slôwSep 26, 20151 votes

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Rengar especially, just having that vision cancels his ability to leap right? And it also works for lb's passive I think. Love watching an akali that doesn't realize everyone can see her haha

Lb's only works for pinks. and Rengar doesnt have his leap cancelled. In fact, you can even leap onto the pink wards.

HabitzSep 26, 20151 votes

We were talking about pink wards

PoopLoopistSep 24, 20151 votes

i don't want to.

High5Sep 24, 20151 votes

I downranked this for swearing, but agree with the point being made.

My personal pet peeve are people who feed Eve's because they either don't know they need to pink ward or are too selfish to do it.

I also used to report anyone that still had a level 1 yellow ward after 25 mins. Warding isn't knowing all the champions problem. It's a not understanding the game at a fundamefundamental level problem.

DrathTurtle314Sep 24, 20151 votes

But pinks aren't NECESSARY to defeat evelyn... If you can get good ward coverage of her camps, you can invade and kill her and make her completely useless. If your jungler is too risk adverse to invade for wards and for the kills those wards prep for the team, then you need pinks in every lane(and the jungler's pink on one side of mid) to keep her from ganking effectively.

Towboat421Sep 25, 20151 votes

Is it sad that i see people grab item 3342 just so they can say they dont have the warding trinket, i mean they don't use it and when asked to at least upgrade it for the spy orb they never seem to have enough. They avoid warding themselves like the plague its so stupid, heck last game i gave up finishing a core item on Chogath at level nine for the upgraded trinket and boots why is it so hard to learn vision wins games.

gg git diffSep 25, 20151 votes

None of my friends ever buy item 3361 and I’m not sure how to convince them, please help.

DazedOnlookerSep 25, 20151 votes

Usually if i'm support,or generally the only one on the team warding, i would just stop warding completely and the the map stay dark...50% of my games, people will EVENTUALLY start warding once they realize that the game is "gg" if they don't..or we just surrender...there is no real way to convince people to ward. especially if they looking up to pro players who do ward yet still DON'T ward in their own games...

AkiyumeSep 25, 20151 votes

It's a shame you can't buy pinks once you're full build item 3070

TormythSep 26, 20151 votes

[{quoted}](name=RIP Resonance,realm=NA,application-id=WEuoGbmp,discussion-id=sgAPLMUn,comment-id=,timestamp=2015-09-24T08:57:44.589+0000)

Please. Just ward. I main support, and I'm used to placing at least one ward per minute of every game minimum. When I see games where we're losing because people are too selfish to buy arguably the best item in the game ! It's only 250 Gold and is basically a sightstone that doesn't take up an item slot. Do you realize how OP this even is, and how many kills you can avoid feeding? At level nine, this item should be a priority in my opinion. should also be prioritized; making sure you have one on the map at all times is my personal preference. I am not good at League of Legends, but I have won many games due to wards. You can spare 250 Gold or 100 Gold to make sure the enemy doesn't get 300 from ganking you.

"Buy a ward, stop a gank, save a life, wards."

Aeolian MelodiesSep 27, 20151 votes

My favourite moment is when they presume that they can tell me where to place my three wards when they can't even use their freebie ward.

STFU.

If you can't put down a ward you don't get to make ward requests.

KrigjerSep 27, 20151 votes

Everyone on my team: OMG we need wards! ... yet their trinket hasn't been upgraded.

Yet here I am 3/3 for wards placed, with a pink near Baron, doing what I can to keep important areas in vision AND making sure we're not getting flanked.

Aeolian MelodiesSep 27, 20151 votes

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Everyone on my team: OMG we need wards! ... yet their trinket hasn't been upgraded.

Yet here I am 3/3 for wards placed, with a pink near Baron, doing what I can to keep important areas in vision AND making sure we're not getting flanked.

I'm not even at the "upgrade your trinket" stage. I'm still at the "fucking place down the free ward at least" stage.