User blog comment:Lukeatlook/Pyro's Item Overhaul 8 - The Support Project/@comment-24871065-20141223104022

OK, someone needs to be the first to say this.

I main support in ranked games and I honestly can't remember a single time I've bought a sightstone. At all. It's just not worth it for me. It takes up an inventory space that can be used to instead boost more relevant attributes. Granted, all the supports I play have pretty solid ways of keeping my adc alive in a battle (Braum, Sona, Soraka, Leona and Taric as well as the occasional Janna) through means of disruption or heals. I find that the sightstone is overpriced as it gets me halfway to my Ardent censer in case of Sona or Soraka (dat attack speed-boost is awesome) or nearly halfway to my first armor-item (Frozen heart or Randuins) with tanks such as Leona, Braum or Taric. That money in the end allways seem to pay of as my survivabiity gets a quite rapid boost and allows me to be more versatile and aggressive and stay in the fight as my ADC can run and I can, hopefully, flash away or just straight outrun them with Boots of Speed.

Sure, the wards are tasty. But the difference in wards isn't really that good. Just the 3 wards that can be bought separatly is enough to keep ganking paths clear and especially so with the new jungle creep in river being able to grant vision. Just put one in river bush and one in your tribush and you're pretty safe. Sure, warding the two corner bushes is fun, but it's not like you don't see your opponents "sneaking" in there anyway and even then you should have one ward left after the two I mentioned and your adc prob has the trinket one as well. And not buying the sightstone allows you to save money in case your own top lane is dominating and keeping their jungler busy as well.

I dunno, I might be wrong but the sightstone is just a waste of money for me and hampers my late game might. I rather buy individual wards as they are needed.