@Riot Notification of no smite when jungler

Jenks3·6/5/2016, 8:26:11 PM·2 votes·712 views

Riot, could we get an indicator or popup letting a player know that he does not have smite selected if he is queued as jungler? I just played a game where I accidentally forgot to change to smite before the game started. I'm not blaming anyone, it was totally my fault. I forgot. Let's get that out of the way. However, I then got to experience the most absolutely grueling league of legends game I have ever played. The jungle absolutely requires smite, no other option. I couldn't even kill two camps before having to back, due to the lack of machete extra damage. Not to mention the XP deficit from not having the jungle item.

Now I 100% understand why it is tuned this way, and why it is balanced this way. I just wish I could help prevent that from happening again. It doesn't have to force you to take smite, but a notification might be nice to spare 4 other people the horror of me trying to make my way through the jungle without a jungle item. No other role gets just absolutely destroyed this way by accidentally forgetting to change a summoner :(

Thanks for listening.

TLDR: Please give us a notification that we do not have smite selected if we are queued as jungle, just in case we forget. It saves everyone a world of pain and sadness.

3 Comments

Ezreal Sucks6/5/2016, 8:28:06 PM1 votes

Yes, please!

Leeerzeichen6/5/2016, 9:17:06 PM1 votes

I also don't understand why you can't buy jungle items without smite. Of course you can't buy a smite upgrade without smite, but I don't see how being able to buy talisman or machete without smite could be abused.