I'd like to hear his thoughts and reasons on using or not using smite as a mid laner ?

CouchBeast·9/13/2019, 12:21:26 PM·2 votes·1,503 views

In champion selection I get flamed on , I'd say 75% in Duo . I find it quite useful or cannons, minions opponents ,Drake scuttle Rift, mainly used for smite for rang snaging Canon and early Lane phase also becomes quite useful against super minions, The way I see it I get much more use out of this spell, and not to mention helping up the jungle is crucial robbing is Scuttle from opponent or helping out our jungler if struggling with the scuttles and rift , to me it seems to be quite the advantage

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Dynikus9/13/2019, 12:27:38 PM5 votes

I'm just going to copy paste my response from your other thread, since I'm assuming you didn't intend to put it in memes and games.

You're using smite as a crutch for you inability to cs properly. You're wasting a summoner spell that could otherwise be giving you kill pressure with ignite, map pressure with tp, survivability with cleanse/heal/barrier, etc etc. The benefits of smite in lane are far outweighed by almost every other summoner spell. You can't even buy a jungle item because of the massive reduction in gold you get from csing

Posui Gart9/13/2019, 12:27:41 PM1 votes

You lose either summoner 14 (kill securing spell with healing reduction) or summoner 21 (somethingthat can save you from death) to get a spell that has no value on lanephase and has some little value elsewhere. That is usually bad.

Ahri Baka9/13/2019, 12:35:53 PM1 votes

Technically it's not trolling Not bannable , but since you want to hear our thoughts , Ignite is much better and most of us here don't want a mid laner with smite on our team.

Personally I think taking smite might a good option since you can get Luden's Echo in a cheaper price and you can use the active to slow your enemies , and can also help more in taking objectives , unless they stopped the funneling thing in case I don't know

preternatural9/13/2019, 12:49:46 PM1 votes

yeah smite mid is pretty good, it even makes dirty farming jungle camps better. and red/blue smite is either dmg+cc or dmg+targeted tankyness and it's up so often compared to a regular summoner. and scuttle control and double smite on drakes and baron secures i mean all around it's probably better to run smite into 70% of matchups as a melee whatever in mid lane than it is to run something else. unless you're running teleport, cause that's just a step behind flash on how broken it is.