Top Laner Smite

SoldierofRome3·5/3/2015, 3:01:34 AM·2 votes·796 views

Ok this is ridiculous how top laner can take smite and have it be viable. It gives a large bonus to the blue side top laner as most junglers start blue thus the red side top laner cannot take the blue buff. and thus results in two red team characters being behind in XP as the top laner gets the red and level two early and leaves the top laner behind in xp and the jungler behind as he does not get the subsiquent Xp from the red buff. I know that Riot is working on this, I'd just like to ask if they could make it a priority. (also under reasoning in the "think before you post" area there is a they instead of a then)

4 Comments

IcyPepper5/3/2015, 3:02:24 AM1 votes

but it's perfectly okay for summoner 4 to essentially be mandatory on everyone, and no strategic diversity is allowed whatsoever.

Kay.

kcStranger5/3/2015, 3:12:38 AM1 votes

Just my 2 cents, the problem is caused by a combination of two things:

Skirmisher's Sabre's active is a reasonable replacement for a combat summoner like Ignite.
Cinderhulk is the only jungle enchant that has the ability to become gold-efficient when including the full cost of the jungle item. (All the enchants are pretty efficient if you just look at the enchant.)

So, nerfs to either Sabre or Cinderhulk ought to do the trick. I know there are some nerfs to Cinderhulk's passive under consideration, which should help, though they may not solve the problem. Only point is, Riot has a couple ways of addressing this, and very likely next patch will make it at least a little worse.