Vision Score by Role: It's Not Just the Support's Job

Most players treat vision as "the support's problem." But a large fraction of stuck Silver-to-Gold games are lost to non-support roles refusing to participate in vision at all. Here's how vision score is calculated, what to aim for at each role, and the timing rules that distinguish wards-placed-anywhere from wards-that-actually-mattered.

How vision score is computed

Vision score sums:

• Time your placed wards spent alive on the map

• Enemy wards destroyed (fixed value per kill)

• Control ward uptime

The key insight: placing wards isn't enough. Four stealth wards placed in your own jungle that get killed in a minute give you nearly nothing. One control ward in drake pit that lives four minutes is enormous.

Support

30-minute benchmarks:

• Under 40: rough — wards are dying instantly or you didn't place them

• 40–60: solid Gold

• 60–80: Plat-and-above behavior

• 80+: top of Master

Support target per game: 5+ control wards bought, 8+ enemy wards killed. Hitting both numbers naturally pushes vision score above 60.

Jungle

Standard range is 35–50. Three habits get you there: ward the entrance to the lane you're ganking, control-ward objectives 90 seconds early, kill the wards in the enemy jungle on the way through.

The single highest-impact ward is the one before a gank. Walking into a lane without enemy jungle vision means you either die to the counter-gank or watch the enemy escape with summoners up. Gank success rate roughly doubles when that one ward is in.

Solo lanes (top, mid)

Most laners ignore vision; they shouldn't. Solo lane target is 20–35. Mid in particular sits in the middle of the map and has a vision responsibility on the river.

Targets:

• 6–10 stealth wards in side rivers

• At least 1 control ward (around tower-dive windows)

• 3–5 enemy wards killed

ADC

ADC is the role most likely to ward zero times in a game. Target: 20–30.

Where it counts:

• Bot lane brushes when the enemy jungler is near

• Drake-pit control ward (don't leave that to support alone)

• A control ward at your own feet before late-game fights

Three timing rules for placing wards

• 90 seconds before an objective: control wards go in early. 30 seconds before drake is too late — the fight has already started.

• Just before recall: drop wards in the brushes around your lane before backing. You return safely.

• When enemy jungler is unknown: ward the river before extending. Always.

Prompt to ask the AI

The JSON has enough vision data for solid self-review:

Compared to expectations for my role, which of placement, denial (wards killed), or control wards was the biggest gap this game?