Poachers Knife Balance Issue
As we know, Poachers Knife gives a small buff, some gold, and a CD reduction on Smite when you smite and then kill a large monster in the enemy jungle, and this part worked as expected.
When it comes to Baron and Dragon however, it gets sort of complicated.
For an example, I was Red Side Jungle Sion. My team went for dragon, and I smote and killed it. I proceeded to get all of the benefits of Poachers Knife. Later in that game, my team went for Baron, which I also smote and killed. However, this time I did not get the poachers knife buff. I imagine something similar would happen if I was blue side, getting the buff for Baron, but not Dragon.
I know that Baron and Dragons don't happen very often, but game changing plays happen at those places. That makes this a kind of important deal. It also means that red side jungler can smite steal dragon and get away easier than they Baron.
I don't know how the buff applies to the Scuttlecrabs.
TLDR: Please make the Poachers Knife buff apply consistently to Baron and Dragon as they are neutral camps that don't really belong to a team.
A Rioter's response on if this will be looked at would be much appreciated. If it is not getting looked at, I would be interested in hearing the reasoning behind it.