Stealth Ward (Item)

Ghost Ward redirects here.

N/A Edit
Consume
Places an invisible ward with 1100 range. Lasts 3 minutes.
Recipe
Cost	75g
Sell	30g
Code	2044
Availability
SR
HA

File:Stealth Ward.png

A Stealth Ward. Stealth Wards have green tops as opposed to Vision Wards, which have pink tops.

A stealth Ward is a consumable item in League of Legends. Only 3 of these wards can be carried in a summoner's inventory and only 3 can placed on the map per player.

Ghost Ward

• Ghost Wards, placed by the Sightstone and Ruby Sightstone, are identical to Stealth Wards.
• Both Sightstone items share the same counter for the number of active wards.
• If you place a ward after you already have three out, the first one you placed is removed and a new ward is placed in the position indicated.

Notes

• Wards placed into walls will jump to the nearest placeable location, as shown in this video.
• Teleporting to the ward will reveal it for the duration of the spell.
• Stealth wards are unavailable for the Twisted Treeline, the Crystal Scar, and the Howling Abyss maps.
• The ward has a cast range of 600. After being placed, it is visible for 1 second, and then becomes invisible until its 3-minute duration expires.
• The ward has 3 HP, and every attack will only damage it by 1. There is also no way to regenerate its health.
  • While some abilities, such as Evelynn's Hate Spike, become active around and can target wards, they cannot actually damage wards without the ward being revealed by a Vision Ward or a champion with a Sweeping Lens.
• Wards grant 30 gold when destroyed (including Ghost Wards from the sightstone items). If the player who reveals the ward and the killer of the ward are different players, the gold will be split 50/50 so each gains 15 gold.
• The ward from Wriggle's Lantern prior to its removal grants 20 gold. If the player who reveals the ward and the killer of the ward are different players, the gold will be split 50/50 so each gains 10 gold.

Strategy

Intelligent usage of wards goes a long way, namely in key brush locations, like intersections, in front of Dragon Dragon and Baron Nashor. This is useful for map awareness of potential ganks, champion movements, and/or attempts to kill an Epic Monster. The lone shrub in front of both Epic Monsters is an excellent place to both reveal the river and keep tabs over their presence.

Wards that are placed on a Noxious Trap will cause the mushroom to explode, a damage free method of removing them.

Certain characters with attack-timer refreshing abilities can clear wards in the moments after they are placed.

• Shyvana can use Twin Bite along with an autoattack.
• Lucian can autoattack, then use Ardent Blaze or Relentless Pursuit and his passive Lightslinger , on the next auto will strike twice.
• Renekton can autoattack followed by Ruthless Predator, or use a Fury-enhanced cast of Ruthless Predator by itself.
• Leona can attack, activate and use Shield of Daybreak, and immediately attack again. However the third attack is not automatic and must be ordered by the player.
• Katarina can attack, use Shunpo (which briefly reveals wards whether allied or enemy), and attack again.
• Rengar can attack, use  Savagery and then follow up with another autoattack or Empowered Savagery Empowered Savagery.
• Jayce can use Hyper Charge while in Cannon form to gain maximum attack speed for 3 attacks without the need to reset the attack timer.

Lee Sin's Safeguard, Jax's Leap Strike, and Katarina's Shunpo can be used to dash to allied wards. This can be used to move over walls, chase enemies, or escape.

Template:Wards

Patch History

V4.9:

• The icon above a sight ward is now larger and green.

v3.14

• Sight (Green) wards renamed to "Stealth Wards"
• Sight wards limited to a max of 3 placed per player
• Ward tooltips display how many stealth wards are currently placed

V1.0.0.148:

• Added new particles.

V1.0.0.146:

• Now displays a targeting indicator when placing a ward inside a bush.
• Fixed: Wards no longer state that they have 20 attack damage.

V1.0.0.134

• Sight Ward and Vision Wards now have a 0.5 second cooldown.

V1.0.0.125:

• Wards will now properly update the map icons for creep camps.

V1.0.0.123:

• Using Teleport on a ward will no longer reveal the ward through Fog of War to enemies. Instead, it will destealth the ward to be seen if an enemy is near and reveal the teleport particle through Fog of War to all enemies.
• Attack-move will now target visible wards

V1.0.0.121:

• Teleporting to a ward will now reveal the ward to enemies for a few seconds.
• Locally jumping to a ward will now destealth the ward for 2 seconds.

V1.0.0.120:

• Wards and Teemo's mushrooms are no longer targetable/manipulated by spells (except Teleport). This means, for example, that wards will no longer be able to block Rammus' Powerball, mushrooms will not block skillshots, and Jax is no longer able to Leap Strike onto a ward.

V1.0.0.112:

• Stacks per slot increased to 5 from 3.

V1.0.0.111:

• Sight Wards now have a green top.

V1.0.0.109:

• No longer grants experience when destroyed.

V1.0.0.108:

• Cost reduced to 75g from 90g.
• Now has 3 health, is immune to healing effects and takes only 1 damage from every attack.

V1.0.0.107:

• Health reduced to 1 and armor reduced to 0
• Reduced collision and spell hit sizes
• Duration reduced to 3 minutes from 4.5

V1.0.0.105:

• Updated tooltip.

V1.0.0.101:

• Now shows its remaining duration (in seconds) in its mana bar. Both teams can see the remaining duration.

V1.0.0.61:

• Cast Range increased to 600 from 300.

V1.0.0.52: Added

• 90g vision ward without Magical Vision.

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