I think it's time to give junglers a second summoner spell.

Remove smite upgrades, change smite to an active on jungle items, and tune jungle accordingly.

Along with completely eliminating the problem of a jungler not being able to play the gane because they forgot smite, summoner spell are an important part of shoring up a champion's weaknesses and allowing them to interact with their counters. Vayne is much less of a problem if you have exhaust, Morgana (who I main, by the way) becomes almost gankable if you have cleanse, and ignite gives assassins an answer to (but not a free pass against) Soraka.

Would this increase the overall power of junglers? Of course! Is that something that some choice compensation nerfs couldn't handle? Not at all! Would it maybe highlight the raw power in the super underrated exhaust, the overreliance of certain mages on their cc, and end up needing teleport out of being mandatory toplane when every pro started taking it in the jungle? I certainly hope so!

Obviously this is not a change that could exist in a vacuum, it would throw jungle balance into disarray almost as much as the inevitable chaos that is the Preseason Jungle rework - but I think it would be worth it so that junglers don't get one less important choice than everyone else. Countless times I've wanted exhaust, or ignite, or cleanse (jk no reflexes) whether to counter an enemy pick our team doesn't have the tools to handle, or to shore up an overexploitable weakness my pick has, and been frustrated that I'm not allowed to because of my role. I think it's time to change this.

Tl;dr Summoner spells are an interactive, windowed part of counterpicking that help smooth some of the more extreme varience experienced in champion select, and I think it would be worth some role-wide nerfs to make them more accessible to junglers. To and exhaust might also then get nerfed, because they're open, and the relationship between ap mids, cc, and cleanse will probably warrant a look.

Tl;dr Tl;dr I want to be able to pick exhaust against vayne and Fiora as a jungler but I play too far up not to take flash, please move smite onto jungle items and nerf the jungle/rebalance the spells as needed.