Lots of people taking smite in lane, building jungle items to get smite passives

Darkgaledust·11/20/2014, 12:15:41 PM·2 votes·1,270 views

Just had a game against a team with 3 smites. This not only gave them extra objective control, but it also allowed them to the champ-smites.

I guess trading ignite in for a exhaust-ignite makes some sense, but the fact that it's a normal occurrence bothers me. there was a teemo support with smite, built devourer, and nashor's tooth, and it ended up giving him a huge nuke for on hit damage, with little weakness or lost potential.

Just feels weird to me I guess.

11 Comments

AtheosisX11/20/2014, 12:40:08 PM3 votes

The novelty will likely wear off as people get tired of getting owned in lane by better equipped opponents. If not Riot may need to rethink this one.

AGarner11/20/2014, 12:26:35 PM2 votes

The weakness is the fact that they have to waste an item slot on it and the exhaust smite is only 170 or so damage at max rank so it's not very good. I still prefer ignite. Unless your playing Xin, Olaf, Tryndamere, Yi it's not that usefull

Meep Man11/20/2014, 12:59:18 PM2 votes

This will probably die down when people realize that Ignite is overall better than both Smite on champion upgrades. If not, it is a simple fix of just making to so that the owner of a Jungle Item must kill 2 large monsters or so in order to gain the benefits of Sabre and Stalker's Blade for their next Smite. It could probably even be hotfixed if it becomes a major problem since it is such a simple change.

Worgslarg11/20/2014, 1:04:45 PM2 votes

While I feel that this is a bad pattern, the preseason will be filled with large scale changes, so I'm not expecting anything near balance this early(ie kalista top)

Fury and Emperor11/20/2014, 1:21:19 PM1 votes

Don't worry, if that happens on live, the jungle items will get severely nerfed and only the AoE smite one will be viable.