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Jungle Change: Smite

Pwnagecoptor·7/21/2015, 9:37:05 PM·2 votes·932 views

The smite meta is getting to be ridiculous. Many laners are starting to take smite over teleport/ignite/exhaust etc .. So I came up with a new idea based on the new devourer enchant.

Devourer unlocks after 30 stacks. How many laners take this one? None. Why? Because it's to hard to farm that much without BEING the teams jungler. My idea is why not take ALL the other enchants to be unlocked AFTER a certain amount of stacks say.. 15 stacks.

That way Riot can focus on buffing or nerfing the jungle items BECAUSE OF junglers and not laners. They wouldn't have to worry about laners picking it up. Diversity is fine for summoners but for example when it hurts the jungle item because of ex. Runeglaive: Ezreal/Gangplank.

These stacks could start stacking like the old wiggles where it keeps track as soon as you buy the machete. This allows tanks/mages/bruisers to continue to be good and still unlock the enchant for doing something they already do. Again the count would start from the beginning meaning you can just buy the enchant and unlock it at any point depending on how your farm. The idea is to not make it too hard for junglers (because they farm the jungle already) but make it much more difficult for laners to take smite with reasonable cause.

This STOPS laners from taking smite because 15 stacks would be hard to do in lane for any reasonable player.

To counter laners from taking smite even more you could fine tune it where the 15 stacks do not work with dragon/skuttle. Or only give 1 stack. Depending on how hard it is to stack and if laners take it or not.

Again Devourer would not be changed and still remain as is in game now. (And you could buff or nerf this item by how many stacks are needed to unlock it if needed). BUT the other enchants would be behind a small but very achievable wall that stops laners from taking smite.

What do you think?

edit: spelling

2 Comments

Rain NT7/21/2015, 11:06:13 PM1 votes

This is a good idea, I say lower the amount to like 10 but all in all is a good idea. All enchant require 10 stacks beside devourer. I would say per kill or assist is 2 stacks so it help ganking junglers as well since they dont farm much early.

But then again theres not a lot of people using it anymore except for ez mid. But yeah if they want to go smite top or smite mid, they will actually have to make use of it by getting scuttle and counter jungle or just farm the jungle. Not just use it in lane and using it for the enchanted smite. Forcing the players to win 1v1 with a spell deficit (from ignite/teleport) to actually get stacks for the reward (enchant). And so they have to actually use the smite proactively if they are going to get smite.

Lemons227/22/2015, 4:15:22 AM1 votes

Great idea...I would just love it if jungle items could be balanced around the JUNGLERS...and not top/mid laners. Riot should get on this.