League of Legends (LoL) Question: Warding in Soloqueue
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Warding in Soloqueue
Any good and current guides available on the topic? I feel like I never have enough wards and even after a successful play where I can get my support to come with me they never have any wards either since they have used them all covering their lane.
Current strategy during laning phase is to keep a
Control Ward in the pixel bush on the way to Bot lane and one in inventory to use as needed for vision denial.
My Stealth Ward I usually use on a ramp to an enemy jungle entrance to try to keep my laners a little safer. Sometimes I will shallow invade a little further in order to place the ward a bit deeper such as between tGromp and tBlue Buf. And of course if I'm chasing someone into brush and I have a ward available I'll drop it in so I can spot them sooner.
Then of course at some point you probably need to switch to an Oracle Lens. Not quite sure on the timing on that. I get one in most games eventually, but am probably not using it optimally. Try to check for vision around objectives or sweep my jungle for wards after I know an enemy has passed through it.
Also setting up vision around objectives. Is this even possible in soloqueue? 90% of time we are doing it most blind (Silver 2 ELO btw). Maybe someone will throw a ward behind Baron pit, but not always.
How do you communicate to your team about vision?
Current strategy during laning phase is to keep a
Control Ward in the pixel bush on the way to Bot lane and one in inventory to use as needed for vision denial.My
Stealth Ward I usually use on a ramp to an enemy jungle entrance to try to keep my laners a little safer. Sometimes I will shallow invade a little further in order to place the ward a bit deeper such as between tGromp and tBlue Buf. And of course if I'm chasing someone into brush and I have a ward available I'll drop it in so I can spot them sooner.Then of course at some point you probably need to switch to an
Oracle Lens. Not quite sure on the timing on that. I get one in most games eventually, but am probably not using it optimally. Try to check for vision around objectives or sweep my jungle for wards after I know an enemy has passed through it.Also setting up vision around objectives. Is this even possible in soloqueue? 90% of time we are doing it most blind (Silver 2 ELO btw). Maybe someone will throw a ward behind Baron pit, but not always.
How do you communicate to your team about vision?
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When it comes to my lane, the mid lane, I tend to try and use my wards outside of the side bushes in the lanes (basically in river, between the lane bush and pixel brush). So that I can both keep track of what the enemy jungler is doing, like for example taking Scuttle or if I want to protect myself more from potential ganks coming from that side as it'll give me clear vision where that jungler is going to come from (bush, your side, enemy side etc.).
I'll also try to keep at least one
Generally speaking, you should just mainly focus on what you can do when it comes to vision, if your lanes doesn't have much vision, try to be that impact in order to get that vision onto the map. I know that this sounds a bit to much, and yes, duh. However, while being in the Jungle role, like in your case, you have the option to walk all around the map, which makes putting down vision a lot easier to be honest. Just try to tell your laners to ward something important that you'll want to focus around, like the dragon if they have a ward to spare. Usually the
When it comes to my lane, the mid lane, I tend to try and use my wards outside of the side bushes in the lanes (basically in river, between the lane bush and pixel brush). So that I can both keep track of what the enemy jungler is doing, like for example taking Scuttle or if I want to protect myself more from potential ganks coming from that side as it'll give me clear vision where that jungler is going to come from (bush, your side, enemy side etc.).
I'll also try to keep at least one
Generally speaking, you should just mainly focus on what you can do when it comes to vision, if your lanes doesn't have much vision, try to be that impact in order to get that vision onto the map. I know that this sounds a bit to much, and yes, duh. However, while being in the Jungle role, like in your case, you have the option to walk all around the map, which makes putting down vision a lot easier to be honest. Just try to tell your laners to ward something important that you'll want to focus around, like the dragon if they have a ward to spare. Usually the Support should have some wards from their warding item so if they use all of them at once then it's kinda the wrong thing to do.
I agree that is it easy to put down vision as the jungler. My concern is having enough and in the right locations. Given that I've got the option of having two
Decision tree probably has counterjungling relatively low on the priority list. Is it even lower if I have no wards to place?
I'll have to think about how to encourage my team to ward. And that probably needs to happen around 1:30 before an objective. Mostly they go down because you just won a fight rather than because you planned to take the objective so there is no ward setup.
I'd like to move toward more planful.