Should junglers buy Sight Stone in early games?

JX000·Oct 1, 2015·1 votes·1,041 views

For many of my games, I really found version is much more important than farming or ganking. Especially for the junglers who needs a lot of farm like ww or Jax. What I always do is buy a sight stone in early game and ward up everywhere the enemy jungler might go so my team will survive from the gank and I could have a chance to take away his camps. But the 800 gold cost is really big in the early game and mainly 2 wards + 1 pink only cost 250 within 7mins. What is ur opinion? or

13 Comments

TouchpadExpertOct 1, 20153 votes

Jax or Lee sin should buy it since it gives them added mobility.

Roo NutsOct 1, 20151 votes

And no one else. Upgraded trinket should be enough.

TouchpadExpertOct 1, 20151 votes

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And no one else. Upgraded trinket should be enough.

I don't upgrade my trinket when I jungle. I switch over to a sweeper and aggressively take out enemy vision. Cuts down on enemy dragon steals and improves my ganking success rate. I still keep a ward stocked though.

Roo NutsOct 2, 20151 votes

I usually just stick to trinket so I save money on wards. Smite wraiths and immediately check dragon if you want to clear it. I wouldn't recommend smiting unless you plan on doing dragon though as you might end up just wasting the buff.

TouchpadExpertOct 2, 20152 votes

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I usually just stick to trinket so I save money on wards. Smite wraiths and immediately check dragon if you want to clear it. I wouldn't recommend smiting unless you plan on doing dragon though as you might end up just wasting the buff.

A lot of people do that. When I play support I purposely throw a ward in the enemy wraith pit just to prematurely proc the wraith buff early. It keeps the rest of my "useful" wards safe :) I'm a bastard to the enemy jungler sometimes. If only they would buy a sweeper totem they might be able to clear my vision out of the dragon pit :)

CleverExpletiveOct 2, 20151 votes

I gotta start doing this, thanks for the tip. Very sneaky!

IcyPepperOct 1, 20151 votes

The question is, can you afford to?

Are you confident in your abilities to spend 800 gold upfront, which means a slight stat deficiency compared to the enemy jungler, and can you capitalize on that vision advantage (either teammates not dying, denying farm, getting kills, etc) to make the cost negligible?

And will you make good use of the little health it gives, in other words you don't need six offensive items in order to be effective?

Give it a shot sometime, these kinds of things require experimentation. It's really about personal taste (I love to, but my friends don't like it when I do).

JX000Oct 1, 20151 votes

True. I just did a little basic math, 800 gold = 10~11 wards. And you can sell it for 400g in late game so basicllly 5 wards should be the net cost. Regarding to this, when the team needs a lot of warding buying a sight stone is not that risky. Actually if there is going to be a lot of team fight in jungle in the middle game. Sight stone is something which helps team more than other items in mid games.

BluePolarizerOct 1, 20151 votes

Jax actually uses sightstone extremely effectively since he can ward hop on a 3 second CD, and he can build 1 offensive item then tanky. WW probably won't use sightstone very well.

StoryDuckOct 1, 20151 votes

When playing tanky junglers I find ward to be ridiculously helpful in keeping tab on the enemy jungler, this is doubly true for aggressive junglers as I want to keep a tab on them so that my lanes don't fall behind.

FowusOct 1, 20151 votes

I'd only get sightstone on Jax and Lee because it allows them to ward hop. As for other junglers, I'd go stealth ward

Their JunglerOct 2, 20151 votes

If you play Lee Sin it's a must. But otherwise I think you are better off buying wards with leftover money. Just always have a pink on the map. LCS teams buy sightstone as junglers because it's much more team-oriented than solo q. This might also be the case in higher elos.