User blog comment:PrinceVinc/Y U NO SAY MIA/SS??? by DuffTime/@comment-5194571-20121007015623

I'm a 1.1k elo player. I buy wards no matter who it is I am playing. I buy less on some champions such as Teemo once I reach 6 as there's less need for them. The only time I don't buy wards is in normals when the enemy team does NOT have a jungler. At my elo, people don't roam. They have a lane, they stay there until a tower in that lane goes down. Sometimes that's earlier than lvl 6, sometimes it is arounf lvl 11. Until that happens, I'm safe in my lane (usually mid) because nobody has the brains to roam.

I was playing a game as Irelia a few days ago. The enemy team had a troll, so they ended up with 2 junglers. I had an idiot Yi on my team that turret dived a Kha'Zix at lvl 2 and wondered why he died and why I didn't help him. This was what I had for a "lane partner". Despite the enemy team having 2 junglers, I was the only one on my team to buy wards. I even build Wriggle's to help out with that. In the end, we lost horribly because Yi fed and so did bot from co-ordinated ganks. I ended the game with the least deaths on my team BY FAR. The person on my team with the second lowest number of deaths had 4 more than me.

On the other hand, I do sometimes get a tad angry when I die to a gank from another lane with no ss/mia. If, for example, I warded one side of my lane and stay there, then get ganked from the other side that didn't get warded with no prior warning, I occasionally say something like "no ss?" or "ss pls", but I NEVER just fly into open rage. I also never report for no ss/mia. It happens, it's not a reportable offense (I think). So my ally screwed up, oh well. It's 1.1k elo. Expect it.

The thing about warding is if you did ward but:

1) The ward was bypassed by another route.

2) You had wards, but the 3 mins were up and you haven't gone back yet or you can't go back yet because your turret will go down if you do.

It's because of these that calling ss/mia is still helpful.

There are times when you either don't notice someone is missing so you don't call it, or don't get chance. Ever been in a poke war alone mid trying to avoid skillshots from 3 enemy champions while the rest of your team is elsewhere? You're so busy juking you barely get a chance to type or ping. Then you get raged at and your team refuses to defend your tower.

Or in the same situation, one or more of them are out of vision range. You just saw them a second ago and they were stood still or just running around randomly. It's at these times you almost never notice somoene missing because you're busy avoiding Nidalee spears etc.

What I get the blame for most is when you kill someone, then before they even return to lane, they go gank another. If you killed someone, they will be off the map. There's a huge announcement and big pictures. That alone should be enough warning to say "X champion is now ss/mia". If they then gank a lane, that's not the fault of the lane they were originally in. That's the fault of the ally of yours that died because they did not pay attention to what's happening in other lanes.

Before I'm done, I'm gonna rant about one more thing. You know those times when you ping AND call ss/mia as your enemy laner is leaving lane? It could not have possibly been any earlier. You gave warning, plenty of it and early enough. Then the one that left lane gets to your other lane, ganks and comes out with at least one kill and your ally blames you for it being late. I really hate when people do that. You did everything you possibly could to warn them and they stayed where they were, blissfully ignorant of your kind warning then blame you.

I've been doing some theorycrafting recently. My idea is to design a teamcomp where 4 champions are in lane and 1 other does nothing but roam with Oracles and wards. That's all they do, ward and counterward and kill wards. But what about the jungler? They do practically the same job, with other stuff too. And they're actually useful in fights. BUT, having a single person on the team dedicated to te granting and removal of vision can be really useful and it attracts me. I can't seem to stop thinking about it. I can see a few champions doing kinda well with it. Eve would be good at it. If you had one in each lane, a ward specialist and a jungler, then I can see Sejuani and Leona being good as ward specialists as they can also assist in ganks with that ton of CC. It would also be a nice "entry level" role for new players. I play with someone fairly new to the game. He's terrible. He adamantly takes Heal and Clarity on everything because he can't live without them and almost never buys boots. He even got Archangel's on Warwick because he was running out of mana all the time. He always loses his lane and very rarely has a good score. Wouldn't being someone who buys only boots, oracles, gp/10 items and wards help out then? They're not being useful and possibly not feeding. Meh, still toying with the idea. Can't find a way to make it work. It can only work if both teams do it because the game becomes a 4v5 if you have a ward specialist and the enemy doesn't, but a 4v4 if you both do. Late game would suck unless both teams had a similar comp.

Rant over. Traverse the Great Wall of Text at your own peril, for your eyes will hurt from so much reading and my hands are tired from so much typing.