Here is LoL vision score by rank in one line: there is no official table, and anyone showing you one to two decimal places is guessing. Riot has never published a per-tier vision breakdown, and every tracker that does publish one blocks automated checks, so what follows is our own read across the accounts we climb, dated and hedged, plus the one complete public ward-by-league dataset that exists. The number that matters is not your vision score anyway. It is your vision score per minute, measured against your own role, never against the support on your team.
We run League climbs across every tier every day, which means we stare at post-game vision columns more than is healthy. This page covers how the score is calculated (it is time-weighted, and four separate penalties shrink what your wards are worth), what a good number looks like per rank and per role, what moves it, and how to raise it without wrecking your own tempo chasing a stat. If you want the mechanics primer rather than the benchmarks, our guide to the ward types and objective timings that feed the score covers that side.
How vision score is actually calculated
Vision score is a stopwatch, not a counter. The formula is one point per minute of allied ward lifetime you provide, plus one point per minute of enemy ward lifetime you deny. Place a Stealth Ward that survives three minutes and you bank three points. Sweep an enemy ward with 90 seconds left on its clock and you bank 1.5. That is the whole engine, and it is why a Control Ward left standing all game scores more than three trinket wards placed and immediately cleared.
Your wards can also be worth less than face value, which almost nobody knows. According to the wiki’s breakdown of the vision score formula, four multiplicative reductions apply. A stale ward that has not seen an enemy champion, ward or epic monster starts losing value at 60 seconds and drops to half credit by 120. A redundant ward sitting near other allied vision loses 25% for one overlap and up to 75% for three or more. A ward near your own base loses up to about half its value, and a ward jammed next to an allied turret or inside your base earns nothing at all. There is a floor too: a ward killed the instant it lands still pays as if it lived 20 seconds, so 0.33 points.
Wards are not the only source either. Scryer’s Bloom pays 0.5 points per champion it reveals, the Rift Scuttler’s Speed Shrine pays a point if it lasts its full duration, and vision-only abilities like Ashe’s Hawkshot, Kalista’s Sentinel and Quinn’s Heightened Senses pay 0.33 per champion revealed. Small numbers, but they are why a Quinn top occasionally posts a vision score that makes her support look lazy.
LoL vision score by rank
Before the table, the honest bit. Riot publishes no official vision score distribution, and the trackers that publish one per tier are not machine-readable. We checked on the day of writing: League of Graphs, U.GG, Mobalytics and dpm.lol all returned Cloudflare blocks on every automated request. The trackers that do respond, op.gg and Lolalytics, carry no vision score field at all. So the bands below are our own read across the boost accounts we run, last checked August 2026, and they are estimates rather than tracker figures. The percentile column is real data, pulled from op.gg’s live tier distribution for NA on 28 August 2026.
| Rank band | Where that sits on the ladder | Support VS | Jungle VS | Top / mid / ADC VS | The habit that shows up here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron and Bronze | Bottom 20% | 15-25 | 10-15 | 10-15 | Trinket charges sit unused for minutes at a time |
| Silver | Top 58-80% | 25-35 | 15-20 | 12-18 | Trinket goes down on cooldown, Control Wards are occasional |
| Gold | Top 34-58% | 30-40 | 18-25 | 14-20 | A Control Ward on most backs |
| Platinum | Top 16.5-34% | 38-50 | 20-30 | 15-22 | Wards go down before the objective spawns, not during the fight |
| Emerald | Top 4.5-16.5% | 45-58 | 24-32 | 17-24 | Oracle Lens actually leaves the inventory |
| Diamond | Top 0.8-4.5% | 52-65 | 26-36 | 18-25 | Denial is a routine chunk of the score, not an accident |
| Master and above | Top 0.8% | 65+ | 30-45 | 20-30 | The full objective setup runs without anyone calling for it |
Read down any column and each band adds exactly one habit to the band below it. Iron and Bronze leave charges on cooldown. Silver remembers the trinket and skips the 75-gold purchase. Gold buys the Control Ward but reacts to objectives instead of setting them up. Platinum sets them up. Emerald sweeps. Diamond does both without thinking about it. That is the real ladder hiding inside the numbers, and it is a much more useful thing to climb than a target score.
Why vision score per minute is the only fair comparison
Raw vision score rewards long games, so comparing two numbers from two different matches is close to meaningless. A 42-minute stalemate hands you extra score for free, and a 22-minute stomp caps what you could possibly have banked. Divide by game length and the comparison starts working. That is the same logic behind the CS per minute benchmarks by rank, and for the same reason: per-minute numbers survive contact with reality, totals do not.
Per minute also makes cross-role comparison honest, or at least less dishonest. Support and ADC are not playing the same game where vision is concerned, and the gap is structural rather than a skill gap. Supports have the gold economy and the inventory space for it. ADCs have neither, and an ADC who spends the laning phase warding is an ADC who is not farming.
| Role | Vision job | A good game | A bad game | VS per minute to aim for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support | Lane brushes, river entrances, objective setup, sweeping | 60+ by 25 minutes, 4-6 Control Wards placed | Under 30 at 25 minutes, zero Control Wards bought | 2.0+ |
| Jungle | Enemy buffs, objective pits, deep wards when ahead | 30-45 by 25 minutes, pit warded before every spawn | Under 15, Oracle Lens never equipped | 1.2+ |
| Mid | Side river entrances, roam paths, own lane brushes | 20-30, river warded before every roam window | Under 12, trinket permanently on cooldown | 0.8+ |
| Top | Lane-side river, tri-brush, teleport setups | 20-30, tri-brush covered through the dive windows | Under 12, warding only after dying to a gank | 0.8+ |
| ADC | Bot river, drake pit before a fight | 15-25 without giving up farm to get it | Under 8, or 30 earned by walking away from waves | 0.6+ |
The ADC row is the one that trips people up. A marksman with a huge vision score was often in the wrong place. Thirty vision score on an ADC usually means minutes spent walking to ward spots the support had already covered.
The only complete public ward dataset by rank is eleven years old
The one public study that ever measured warding rate across every league and every role in full was LeagueMath’s per-league, per-role ward study, built on 415,860 NA ranked solo queue matches on patch 5.5. That is 2015 data, from before vision score existed as a stat, so the absolute values are historical curiosities. The shape has held up, and it is the only hard evidence anyone has published on how warding behaviour changes as rank rises.
| Role | Bronze wards/min | Gold wards/min | Diamond wards/min | Challenger wards/min | Bronze to Challenger |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support | 0.51 | 0.69 | 0.82 | 0.94 | +84% |
| Jungle | 0.21 | 0.26 | 0.29 | 0.38 | +81% |
| Top | 0.20 | 0.22 | 0.24 | 0.27 | +35% |
| Mid | 0.21 | 0.24 | 0.24 | 0.23 | +10% |
| ADC | 0.18 | 0.18 | 0.16 | 0.14 | -22% |
Support and jungle warding roughly doubles from Bronze to Challenger. Top rises modestly. Mid is flat. ADC goes down, and that is the number worth staring at: better marksmen ward less, because they hand the job to someone whose gold is not going into a Bloodthirster. Every one of those trends matches what we see on current accounts, which is why an eleven-year-old dataset is still the best public evidence in the room.
If you would rather not spend three months turning these habits into reflexes, our League of Legends rank boost team runs climbs on your schedule with players who set up every objective the same way, every game. You still get the account back with the habits waiting to be learned.
What actually moves the number
Most players trying to raise their vision score place more wards. That is the least efficient lever available. Here is what each action is worth, straight from the scoring rules.
| Action | Roughly worth | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Control Ward that survives five minutes | ~5 points | No duration cap, so it scores until something kills it |
| Stealth Ward living its full duration at level 9+ | Up to 3 points | The ceiling for a yellow trinket |
| Stealth Ward cleared the moment it lands | 0.33 points | The 20-second baseline floor, not zero |
| Sweeping an enemy Stealth Ward with 90s left | 1.5 points | Denial pays at exactly the same rate as provision |
| Sweeping an enemy Control Ward | 1.5 points | Permanent wards count as 1.5 minutes of remaining lifetime |
| Warding next to your own existing wards | -25% to -75% | Redundancy penalty, scaling with how many overlap |
| A ward that sees nothing for two minutes | Up to -50% | Staleness penalty, starting at the 60-second mark |
| Warding near your own base walls | About -50% | Safety penalty, scaling with proximity to base |
| Warding beside an allied turret or inside base | -100% | Pointlessness, and the name is doing real work |
| Scryer’s Bloom reveal | 0.5 per champion | Non-ward vision still counts |
| Ashe Hawkshot, Kalista Sentinel, Quinn Heightened Senses | 0.33 per champion | Vision-only abilities pay a small dividend |
Sweeping is the most underused lever in solo queue by a distance. It pays the same rate as placing, and almost nobody below Emerald equips Oracle Lens. The cleanest single change we have seen on an account this season came from an Emerald jungler who doubled their vision score in a fortnight without placing one extra ward. They swapped to the red trinket at level 9 and swept the pit before every objective. That was the entire adjustment.
How to raise it without griefing your own tempo
Chasing the stat is a real trap, and the community has been circling it for years. The long-running r/summonerschool thread on the same question is one continuous stream of “I use my trinket on cooldown, why is my score still low”, and the answer is almost always that the wards were going down in redundant, stale, safe places that the scoring rules discount on purpose.
Four rules keep the number honest. Buy a Control Ward every back as a support and every second back as a jungler, because a single one that survives five minutes beats a full trinket cycle. Swap to Oracle Lens at level 9 and sweep before objectives rather than after, since denial is half the score and nobody contests it. Ward before the spawn timer, not during the fight, so your wards are seeing something and dodging the staleness penalty. And spread wards out instead of stacking them, because three wards in one brush earn a quarter of what three wards across three approaches do. Where to put them by role lives in the warding spots broken down lane by lane.
What you should not do is walk across the map to ward for credit. A mid laner who leaves a wave crashing to place a deep ward has traded 15 CS for maybe two vision score. That is a bad trade in any elo, and it is the most common way players make themselves worse while making their post-game screen look better.
The catch: vision score is a proxy, not a skill measure
Vision score correlates with winning. It does not cause winning, and the difference matters. The 80-score support who put every ward in a place nobody walked did not carry anything. They farmed a number. A high vision score in a loss almost always means exactly that: wards placed across territory that was never contested, while the enemy took three drakes through a corridor nobody was watching.
The stat has a structural bias too. It rewards support items and trinket uptime, so it partly measures which role you queued rather than how well you played it. A support with a functioning gold economy will out-score a mid laner playing a better game, every time. And because the score is time-weighted, it favours passive games over decisive ones. Win at 22 minutes and your number looks worse than the player who stalled to 40.
So use the table above as a diagnostic, not a target. If you are a support sitting at 32 in Gold, the metric is not your problem. You are at your band’s average, and the next habit to add is the Control Ward. If you are at 70 and still losing, the number was never the issue. What you are chasing is winning fights you set up by being where the enemy is not, and vision score only estimates how well you did that.
Frequently asked questions
What is a good vision score in LoL?
It depends entirely on role and game length. Support wants 60 or more by 25 minutes, jungle 30 to 45, and top, mid or ADC are fine anywhere from 20 to 30. The only version of “good” that transfers between games is beating the enemy player in your own role.
How is vision score calculated in LoL?
One point per minute of allied ward lifetime you provide, plus one point per minute of enemy ward lifetime you deny. It is time-weighted, so a Control Ward surviving ten minutes outscores six trinket wards that get cleared instantly, and wards that see nothing or overlap other allied vision are worth less than face value.
What is the average vision score in League of Legends?
Around 25 across all roles and ranks, which is a nearly useless figure because it averages a support at 55 against an ADC at 14. Riot publishes no official split, so compare inside your own role and treat any all-role average as trivia.
What counts as a bad vision score?
For a support, under 30 in a 30-minute game means Control Wards never got bought. For a jungler, under 15 means Oracle Lens never came out. For a laner, under 10 in a full-length game means the trinket sat on cooldown for most of the match.
Does vision score go up with rank?
For support, jungle and top, yes. For ADC, no. The only complete public ward study by league found marksman ward rates falling as rank rose, from 0.18 per minute in Bronze to 0.14 in Challenger, because better ADCs delegate vision and spend that time farming.
Is vision score per minute better than total vision score?
Yes, and it is the only fair way to compare across roles or across games of different lengths. A 40-minute game inflates raw score for free. Dividing by game length is what makes the comparison mean anything.
The short version: there is no official vision score table by rank, so treat every band on this page as our estimate rather than a Riot figure, and judge yourself per minute and inside your own role. Support climbs from roughly 20 in Iron to 65-plus in Master, jungle and top rise more gently, and ADC barely moves at all by design. The fastest way to move your own number is not more wards, it is a Control Ward every back and Oracle Lens from level 9. And if you would rather have the habits arrive with the rank attached, our team can run the climb through Emerald, Diamond and Master on your account, on your schedule.
