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This page is for the deployable units. See also: Stealth Ward (Item) Stealth Ward (Item), Warding (Passive) and Ward skins.

A ward is a deployable unit that removes the fog of war over the surrounding area.

Usage

  • Wards have many sources, but the most common will be those deployed by expending charges on the Warding Totem Warding Totem trinket or via the Control Ward Control Ward consumable item.
  • They are only available on Summoner's Rift.
  • A ward's vision does not extend into brush or over terrain.
  • The sight from wards is classified as allied vision, and will be lost while under the effects of Nearsight icon Nearsight. This includes wards that YOU placed.
  • Wards take 1 damage when hit by a basic attack, regardless of the attack's damage or on-hit effects. Abilities that grant attack resets or effects that cause you to hit twice will allow you to kill wards faster.
  • As of V6.13, attacking a ward will no longer classify you as entering combat. For example, you will retain the bonus movement speed from Boots of Mobility Boots of Mobility, Template:Moi and Taliyah's Taliyah's Rock Surfing Rock Surfing.
  • As of V7.16, passively generated one-use on-hit effects, such as Kircheis Shard item Energized, Power Chord Power Chord or Headshot Headshot, will not be consumed when attacking wards. Some cases were not added until later and other missing cases should be reported as a bug.

Playing Against

  • Control Ward icon Control Wards reveal and Disabled Ward icon disable others wards within their Sight icon Sight.
  • Sweeper Drone icon Sweeper Drones will True Sight icon reveal and Disabled Ward icon disable stealthed wards within its radius, and highlight visible wards as a red silhouette. Note that the drone can see Exposed icon into brush and over terrain.
  • Template:Moi grants True Sight icon vision of Wards hit for 12 seconds.
  • Ward Rubble
    When a ward is killed, times-out or is replaced, they leave behind Ward Rubble icon Ward rubble for 5 minutes. This can be used to gain knowledge of the enemy's warding habits.
  • Certain characters with attack-timer refreshing abilities can clear wards in the moments after they are placed.
  • Lee Sin's Lee Sin's Safeguard Safeguard, Katarina's Katarina's Shunpo Shunpo, Jax's Jax's Leap Strike Leap Strike can be used to dash to allied wards. This can be used to move over walls, chase enemies, or escape.

Types of Ward

Classic Ward

Classic Stealth Ward

Stealth Ward icon Stealth Ward e

Grants Sight icon sight over the surrounding 900 units.

Life Span:

150 seconds

Limit:

3 Placed, shared with Totem Ward icon Totem Wards, increases by 1 with Vigilant Wardstone Vigilant Wardstone

Visible:

Becomes stealthed after 1 second of placement.

Health:

3

Bounty:

30 Gold 30 and 38 / 46.4 Experience

Source:
File:Trinket ward.png

Classic Totem Ward

Totem Ward icon Totem Ward e

Grants Sight icon sight over the surrounding 900 units.

Life Span:

90 − 120 (based on average of all champion levels) seconds for Stealth Ward Stealth Ward

Limit:

3 Placed, shared with Stealth Ward icon Stealth Wards, increases by 1 with Vigilant Wardstone Vigilant Wardstone

Visible:

Becomes stealthed after 2 seconds of placement.

Health:

3

Bounty:

10 Gold 10 and 38 / 46.4 Experience

Source:

Stealth Ward Stealth Ward

File:Control Ward.jpg

Classic Control Ward

Control Ward icon Control Ward e

Grants Sight icon sight over the surrounding 900 units. Cannot have its sight Disabled Ward icon disabled. Its sight also:

It is also Exposed icon exposed to enemies while it is revealing one of the above stealthed units, or granting vision of a Tentacle Tentacle.

Life Span:

Indefinite

Limit:

1 Placed, increases by 1 with Vigilant Wardstone Vigilant Wardstone

Visible:

Yes

Health:

4, regenerates after 6 seconds of not being attacked.

Bounty:

30 Gold 30 and 38 / 46.4 Experience

Source:

Control Ward Control Ward

File:Farsight Ward.jpg

Classic Farsight Ward

Farsight Ward icon Farsight Ward e

Grants Sight icon sight over the surrounding 500 units. Untargetable icon Untargetable to allies.

Life Span:

Indefinite

Limit:

No Limit (20 in Practice Tool)

Visible:

Yes

Health:

1

Bounty:

15 Gold 15 and 19 / 23.2 Experience

Source:

Farsight Alteration Farsight Alteration

Ghost Poro

Ghost Poro

Totem Ward icon Ghost Poro e

Grants Sight icon sight over the surrounding 450 units. Cannot have its sight Disabled Ward icon disabled. Is Untargetable icon untargetable and will be scared away if an enemy champion comes near it.

Life Span:

90 seconds

Limit:

No Limit

Visible:

Yes

Health:

N/A

Bounty:

N/A

Source:

Ghost Poro Ghost Poro

Zombie Ward

Classic Zombie Ward

Zombie Ward icon Zombie Ward e

Grants Sight icon sight over the surrounding 900 units. Untargetable icon Untargetable to allies.

Life Span:

120 seconds

Limit:

No Limit

Visible:

Yes

Health:

1

Bounty:

1 Gold 1

Source:

Zombie Ward Zombie Ward

Media

Patch History

V7.22
V6.22
V5.22
V5.5
  • New Effect: Now have spawn and death animations to provide better feedback.
V5.3
V4.20
V4.11
V4.9
  • The icon above a stealth ward is now larger and green.
V4.5
V3.14
V1.0.0.146
  • Now displays a targeting indicator when placing a ward inside a bush.
V1.0.0.125
  • Will now properly update the map icons for creep camps.
V1.0.0.123
  • Using Teleport Teleport on a ward will no longer reveal the ward through Fog of War to enemies. Only Teleport's animation is visible.
  • Attack-move will now target visible wards.
V1.0.0.121
  • Wards can now be targeted by Leap Strike Leap Strike and Shunpo Shunpo, revealing the ward for 2 seconds.
  • New Effect: Teleporting Teleporting to a ward will now reveal the ward to enemies. Teleport will make the ward invulnerable, however.
V1.0.0.120
  • Removed: Wards are no longer classified as minions for targeting purposes. For example, they will no longer block Rammus' Rammus' Powerball Powerball or intercept skill shots.
V1.0.0.112
  • Stacks per slot increased to 5 from 3.
V1.0.0.111
V1.0.0.108
  • Wards can no longer be affected by Heals.
  • Wards now have 3 health and take 1 damage from basic attacks.
V1.0.0.101
  • Wards now show their remaining duration in their mana bar.
V1.0.0.96
V1.0.0.52
May_9,_2009_Patch

References


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