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Hello everyone!
Lately I was talking with my friend about trinkets, and that how I was dissapointed, that I (support), have to take
Oracle's Lens all the time.
At first, I was pleased with the idea of trinkets. Can you imagine, that you can take warding trinket and therefore you can dump that stupid Ruby Sightstone, and use your 6th free slot for some useful AP/AR/MR item to be either stronger or to have more sustain in team-fights?
This wonderful dream was shattered when I learned, that support is suposed to take Oracle's Lens and destroy enemy wards throughout the game.
But yesterday I finally found a solution for this problem. My friend admited, that after laning phase he always forget to put wards around the map (so I called him bronze noob, as he is Bronze 1 and hates that :D). I came up with a solution - when we pay together, he gets the Oracle's Lens and I will take Greater Stealth Totem. Like this, we won't lose Lens and I can finally free one slot in the inventory. Genial masterplan just begged for a trial. So we played a troll pick game.. sry - blind pick game. After I got my trinket upgraded, there was only one word left to say: SERIOUSLY?
Just read that demented description again:
So basically - I can place 1 ward that lasts for 3 minutes, and then I am supposed to wait another 2 minutes to place the other ward? Am I the only one who think this is ******ed?
Just an example from yesterday: I warded dragon. Then I had 2 minutes to get to the baron and place another ward over there. Since I timed it precisely, I placed the 2nd ward exactly when that trinket went off cooldown - for whole 1 minute I was warding 2 objectives. After that I was again with just 1 ward placed in game and had another 1 whole minute to decide what to ward next.
It was outrageous and I sold that useless piece of ***** after having it for about 5 minutes.
TL;DR
I find this trinket totally useless for a support, and when playing this role, you just have to stay with ye good ole Ruby Sightstone, and this new warding trinket stuff is not much of a help for us.
They can make this trinket usable by lowering its cooldown to 30 seconds. Otherwise - they can stick it... somewhere safe.
And for tomorrow, I would like to discuss trinket composition for a team. So, play some League till then and see you soon!! ;)
Lately I was talking with my friend about trinkets, and that how I was dissapointed, that I (support), have to take
Oracle's Lens all the time.At first, I was pleased with the idea of trinkets. Can you imagine, that you can take warding trinket and therefore you can dump that stupid
Ruby Sightstone, and use your 6th free slot for some useful AP/AR/MR item to be either stronger or to have more sustain in team-fights?This wonderful dream was shattered when I learned, that support is suposed to take
Oracle's Lens and destroy enemy wards throughout the game.But yesterday I finally found a solution for this problem. My friend admited, that after laning phase he always forget to put wards around the map (so I called him bronze noob, as he is Bronze 1 and hates that :D). I came up with a solution - when we pay together, he gets the
Oracle's Lens and I will take Greater Stealth Totem. Like this, we won't lose Lens and I can finally free one slot in the inventory. Genial masterplan just begged for a trial. So we played a troll pick game.. sry - blind pick game. After I got my trinket upgraded, there was only one word left to say: SERIOUSLY?Just read that demented description again:
- UNIQUE Active: Places an invisible ward that reveals the surrounding area for 180 seconds (120 second cooldown). Limit 3 Stealth Wards on the map per player.
So basically - I can place 1 ward that lasts for 3 minutes, and then I am supposed to wait another 2 minutes to place the other ward? Am I the only one who think this is ******ed?
Just an example from yesterday: I warded dragon. Then I had 2 minutes to get to the baron and place another ward over there. Since I timed it precisely, I placed the 2nd ward exactly when that trinket went off cooldown - for whole 1 minute I was warding 2 objectives. After that I was again with just 1 ward placed in game and had another 1 whole minute to decide what to ward next.
It was outrageous and I sold that useless piece of ***** after having it for about 5 minutes.
TL;DR
I find this trinket totally useless for a support, and when playing this role, you just have to stay with ye good ole
Ruby Sightstone, and this new warding trinket stuff is not much of a help for us.They can make this trinket usable by lowering its cooldown to 30 seconds. Otherwise - they can stick it... somewhere safe.
And for tomorrow, I would like to discuss trinket composition for a team. So, play some League till then and see you soon!! ;)
Lol. Junglers should be grabbing lens. I'd rather have a pink ward.
Here's what you should do, as support. You start the game with Warding Totem and you keep it all the way until you're either level 9 (or about to be) or after you got sightstone.
Sure, I do this all the time - get vision trinket, then when I got sightstone (around lvl 7) I change it for Lens.
Denying vision is important. You can't say that Lens isn't good
I didn't mean to say lens is bad, my point was that stealth totem trinket is not better - or anything close - to sightstone.
Building Ruby Sightstone is a GOOD thing. HP is a universal stat that everyone can use and you get free wards.
Well, since you have to buy it it is good. I just thought I could get Stealth Vision Totem and instead of Ruby Sightstone, I could buy something better (Warmog, or Rabadon or some defensive item or something with aura... some bonus 6th item that normally support can't get because of sightstone)
If you're complaining that you don't get enough vision from simply having warding totem...well thats the point. You still need to buy wards (or sightstone as a support) regularly, trinkets are not to be depended on for vision all game. I'm not sure why you're so upset lol, trinkets were never meant to replace wards or sightstone....
Exactly. Seems like you, sir, got what I meant to say :) I thought this trinket can replace sightstone and my plan was - whenever playing premade with my friend, I get trinket and build item set without sightstone.
Maybe I just wrote it wrong cause plenty of people seems like they didn't get it right.
I actually dont grab lens.
Well, I strongly recommend you to get Lens. Dunno how it is in NA silver league, but in EUNE, in 90% of my games I am the only one placing wards and using Lens throughout the game. People just stand in the bush, like 3 or 4 of them, and are complaining why enemy is going to the other side of the map. When I finally come to them and "lens the bush", they find out it was warded all the time... :D
I actually dont grab lens. I upgrade totem to vision. I was sold on it since im a lazy support who doesnt like to buy wards xD
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So get rid of the warding trinket and get the lens after
Did you just make a blog just to tell us that what everyone is already doing is a good thing...? :S
Denying vision is important. You can't say that Lens isn't good - it's definitely not as good as the old pink wards were or old oracle's but it's the most effective way of removing wards right now - or well, technically, the only way unless you can afford to replace pink wards a lot.