All Smite

Lord O Whales·11/22/2014, 2:26:23 AM·2 votes·1,498 views

Has anybody else considered playing an all smite team where the different smite items to enhance certain skills. Obviously Ranger and Poacher would be used for junglers. However, Skirmisher can easily be used by any ADC or AD top laner to deal more damage with each attack and keep vision on their targets. Meanwhile, Stalker would be a good choice for anyone that wants a good slow and a bit of damage that ranges farther than an auto attack. Stalker would be especially good for supports giving an exhaust-like slow (although it doesn't have the reduction effects). With all the downfalls to the smite system with better options for spells many people easily shrug off this option. However, if you take in the new strength of dragon buffs, then it is easy to see how having everyone with smite late game doing +1000 damage each makes steals and fast clears easy. The steals and for Baron would also be very strong. Virtually any steal for red or blue buffs is possible. For instance if the team is running out of a fight and the APC could burst the other team down but has no mana then the team could time their smites to instantly pick a blue off while running. I recently played a game as Graves and completely destroyed the other team with well time slows from smite. Even in lane, smite has a low cooldown that allows for easy pickups of siege minions in tricky situations. The low cooldown also makes the effects of a smite available much more often. Obviously the last tier of the jungle items would be specialized to your role whether you need extra attack damage, ability, attack speed, or health. I challenge you all to consider this option and try a game or two. I know some of you will say that the effects of extra damage to monsters is useless in lane, however that is not true for during mid to late game it is easy for anyone to clear camps quickly for quick gold or XP (especially with having smite damage too). item 3715 Skirmisher item 3706 Stalker item 3711 Poacher item 3713 Ranger

3 Comments

JadeKnightblazer11/22/2014, 2:31:45 AM1 votes

And hopefully Riot finds a way to fix this all smite team issue before it gets out of hand.

m4dha773r11/26/2014, 10:58:44 PM1 votes

There is no counter play to a team that goes all smite vs a single jungler. Basically you automatically get a 4v5 because jungle is out of the game. I just played Nautilus VS a whole team that had smite and I had nothing to jungle. It was all taken and I was left at LVL 1 until 4 minutes in the game. I am not one to complain but it was ridiculous, because I was countered so hard I couldnt do anything and I got blamed, and reported, when there was nothing I could do.