Stealth Ward (Item)

This article concerns the removed consumable item. For the deployable unit, see Stealth Ward.

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Stealth Ward (Item)
Availability	Summoner's Rift
Consume	Places an invisible ward with 1100 range.
Passive	Limit 3 Stealth Wards on the map per player.
Menu	Starter Items > Laning Tools > Consumable Tools >Vision & Trinkets
Cost	75
Sell	?
Code	2044

Stealth Ward was an consumable item in League of Legends.

Notes

Ward before V3.12

• 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.
• 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, although it remains invulnerable.
• Stealth wards can only be purchased on the Summoner's Rift map.
• Wards have a cast range of 600.
• The ward has 3 HP, and every attack will only damage it by 1. There is also no way to regenerate a ward's health.
• Wards grant gold to the killer as well as to users granting stealth-detecting vision of the ward, e.g. Sweeping Lens.
• The Wards placed by Sightstones are identical.

Strategy

Intelligent usage of wards goes a long way, namely in key brush locations, like intersections, in front of 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.

• Fiora can autoattack then use Bladework.
• 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.
• 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.
• Master Yi can utilize his passive Double Strike and an extra basic attack after, providing that the passive is triggered before or after the singular basic attack.

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

Patch History (Item)

V5.22

• Removed from the game.

V5.5

• New Effect: Now have spawn and death animations to provide better feedback.

V4.9

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

V3.14

• Name changed to Stealth Ward from Sight Ward.
• New Effect: Limited to a maximum of 3 placed per player.
• New Effect: Tooltip 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.
• Bug Fix: No longer state that they have 20 attack damage.

V1.0.0.134

• New Effect: Now have a 0.5 seconds cooldown.

V1.0.0.125

• 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

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

V1.0.0.120

• Removed: 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

• Removed: Granting experience when destroyed.

V1.0.0.108

• Cost reduced to 75 from 90.
• Health increased to 3 from 1.
• New Effect: Is immune to healing effects and takes only 1 damage from every attack.

V1.0.0.107

• Health reduced to 1 from ?.
• Armor reduced to 0 from ?.
• Reduced collision and spell hit sizes.
• Duration reduced to 180 seconds from 270.

V1.0.0.105

• Updated tooltip.

V1.0.0.101

• New Effect: 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
• Sight Ward
  • Cost: 90
  • Consume: Places an invisible ward with 300 range for 270 seconds.
  • Can only carry 3 Stealth Wards in inventory.

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