Control Ward

Control Ward

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Stats

Consume

Places a visible Control Ward at the target location (600 range), which grants sight over the surrounding 900 units. Cannot have its sight disabled. Its sight also:

• Reveals and disables enemy wards.
• Reveals enemy stealthed traps.
• Reveals Camouflaged champions.

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

Limitations

Can only carry up to 2 Control Wards in the inventory. Limited to 1 Control Ward placed on the map per player.

Recipe

Cost

75

Sell

30

ID

2055

Availability

SR 5v5

Keywords

• kleptomancy
  
• orange
  
• red
  
• pink

Control Ward is a consumable item in League of Legends. It is exclusive to Classic Summoner's Rift 5v5.

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Notes

• Wards and stealthed traps affected by Control Wards will no longer grant sight of their surroundings.
  • They will be engulfed in a red static shock to indicate this.
• Control Wards have 4 health, and regenerate 1 health every 3 seconds after 6 seconds of not taking damage.
• Control Wards do not persistently reveal camouflage champions and instead perform periodic scans. There is a substantial enough delay between checks that camouflaged champions will briefly become unseen.

Map-Specific Differences

Nexus Blitz differences ^edit

• This item is disabled.

Similar items

Farsight Alteration

Oracle Lens

Warding Totem

Strategy

• Control Ward is best used in areas that are commonly and frequently warded by the enemy team.
  • In areas such as near the pits for Baron Nashor or Dragon, it plays a part in ensuring your team has control over that objective as the enemy team won't have vision of it.
• Control Ward can also be used like any other ward for the purposes of granting vision, but it is not quite as effective as it is not stealthed.
  • It can be placed near paths where the opposing jungler can come through to gank, especially those who are stealthed by camouflage.
• Keeping a Control Ward in handy is useful for when you don't have Oracle Lens to clear out enemy vision.

Old icons

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  1st version

Media

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  Control Ward

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  Revealing and Disabling Ward

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  Revealing Trap

Sound Effects

Consumed

• Active SFX

Trivia

• When a Control Ward has been alive for 2 minutes and 30 seconds, it will gain the following buff:
  • Distinguished Order of Ward Longevity and Health: Perhaps this ward has been protected. Perhaps it has merely sat in a disused lane. Whatever the case, it has persisted for aeons in ward years and joins an ancient regal order of Wards that have lasted a really really really long time.

Patch History

V13.4

• Bug Fix: Number of Control Wards in the inventory is now correctly displayed.

V11.24

• Bug Fix: Can no longer sometimes revealed invisible champions within the camouflage zones on Chemtech Rift.
• Bug Fix: No longer uses the VFX for revealing a unit while near invisible champions.

V11.6 - March 18th Hotfix

• Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where disabled wards would appear to reveal the Fog of War around it.

V11.4

• Bug Fix: Now is properly purchaseable if the slot in the inventory became empty after using consumables outside of the spawn.

V10.23

• Updated icon.
• Can now also be stored into Stirring Wardstone, Watchful Wardstone, and Vigilant Wardstone.

V8.23

• Maximum amount carried in inventory reduced to 2 from 3.

V7.22

• New Effect: Can now also be looted with Kleptomancy.

V7.4

• Removed: No longer disables traps.

V7.2

• Bug Fix: Eliminated some inconsistencies with how Control Wards reveal and disable wards.

V6.23

• Bug Fix: No longer put the "Disabled" indicator above Zz'Rot portals (since they don’t actually disable the portals).

V6.22 Added

• Replaces Vision Ward.
• Cost: 75
• Consume: Places a visible ward that reveals the surrounding area. This device will reveal and disable nearby wards and hidden traps, as well as revealing camouflaged units. Control Wards do not disable other Control Wards.
• Limited to 3 in inventory and 1 on the field (per player).
• Killing a Control Ward grants 40 experience and 30.