Opinion, punished too much for forgetting smite

GroundedEagle45·7/25/2019, 1:13:20 AM·2 votes·1,523 views

So I switched roles with a player and totally forgot to grab my smite. So of course I’m punished heavily early game. However after 4 1/2 camps im still level 2. I can’t go to lane without team mates threatening to afk for me taking farm and my jungle is taken by the enemy. I think there should be some way early game to switch spells for this situation or to allow us to buy the jungle item. The punishment is just so phenomenally high I think there needs to be a safety net. ORRR maybe a switch role option in champ select. So I can auto get smite when I’m switched to jungle! Cheers

7 Comments

Karn Bishop7/25/2019, 2:46:05 AM2 votes

Wait so you put in all the necessary effort to ask someone for their lane but didn't adjust your summoner spells? no offense but this sounds like a you problem and not a game design problem, whats next not letting players leave fountain until they buy items?

SEKAI7/25/2019, 5:01:04 AM2 votes

You switched roles.

It's not like you main jg every game and you just forget to change it (that was on a different summs for any reason) since you subconsciously think you don't need to as you queue jg every game.

You switched the roles. You should go and change it yourself. You even got a reminder given that you're switching roles; "yeah I'm switch to jg, oh yeah I forgot smite lemme change that".

There should be no excuses for failing to change it. It's clearly a mistake on your part that you should've easily prevented with no reason why you'd even miss that in the first place.

No one should be responsible to tie the keys to your wrist just because you forget to bring the right keys to the door of the house that you yourself come to visit on your own and have the keys for.

Zero Shingetsu7/25/2019, 1:23:25 AM1 votes

I agree. I don't know how best to fix it offhand, but I want to weight in by saying... Back before jungle changes, you could absolutely jungle without smite. Was it slower? Yes, but if you forgot for whatever reason, you could absolutely still do it. Now, it's functionally impossible to jungle without smite on all but a couple of champions, and I think that's deeply unfortunate.

AetherFlow7/25/2019, 3:12:28 AM1 votes

Doesn't the game auto select smite if you pop queue as a jungler? Also if you swapped with someone how do you not remember to change your spell to smite when you literally talked about it beforehand? I'm not trying to be an ass but these are legitimate questions.