User blog comment:Rases/Pink Ward?/@comment-3466579-20131217102118

I really liked the old, invisible Vision Wards. All the arguments against "vision wars" and such are totally nonsens to me. In my supporting experience throughout Season 3 i never felt like wasting money on wards. With careful positioning and timing it was easy to dominate the vision of a particular place. Oracle's Elixir did make warding a pain and a potential waste of money, not the Vision Wards, and i'm happy about its removal.

Visible Vision Wards of this preseason confuse me. I can't understand the meaning of them being visible: is fighting for vision of so little importance? Because this is what's happening right now. Besides the Lens (which is more of a jungler trinket, being able to clear a ward once every gank) the only item with which one can clear enemy wards is a Vision Ward which, in turn, is always visible. So, i put a Vision Ward in a specific place i need to get rid of enemy vision and... an opponent, without having to spend a single gold, can unward it. One should "actively defend" the Vision Ward. How? As a support, i can't defend it against the majority of the opponents. Should the adc stop farming in order to defend the ward? Should the jungler camp it?

Vision Wards lost their function of long term vision denial tool and they became temporarily wards revealers to be abandoned and destroyed by the opponents once the job's done. I'm not against this idea but, in this case, they should be the exact counterpart of Stealth Wards, lasting 3 minutes, costing 75g and with 3hp.