Updated Smite

CommanderSheperd·7/31/2015, 5:12:16 AM·1 votes·292 views

I was just wondering whether Riot has considered integrating the passives of hunter's machete item 1039 and its upgrades (the passives that regen health and mana and do extra damage to monsters) into the summoner spell smite summoner 11 itself. Maybe get rid of jungle items altogether. I can't think of a way that this could be abused by laners, and it seemed like an interesting concept to me. This would also almost ensure that players that took smite would be jungling and we'd see less shyvanasShyvana and ezrealsEzreal with smite in lanes. I'd like to hear what other people think about this idea and its flaws.

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RetroRage967/31/2015, 5:16:07 AM1 votes

If anything, this would make it worse for junglers and better for laners...

As of now, Sion or whoever toplane can take TP+Smite to have more objective control and get ahead in lane. They don't buy jungle items because they are not constantly fighting jungle creeps.

With the system you suggested, laners would be able to clear camps more efficiently without investing in a jungle item, as they would already have taken smite.

I don't see how you could've thought this would work...