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Leave Baron/Dragon calls to the jungler

Visigoth··2 votes·644 views

Unless you have Smite or are Nunu or Cho'Gath with 1k true damage to monsters, please let the jungler make the call. Nothing is more frustrating than having your team do Baron when you are trying to tell them you have no smite, then get it stolen, because you have no smite. Unless you have a plan to do 1k damage to it instantly, don't assume your jungler will secure it, because it can, and will get stolen. I've had countless games where I just roll up to Baron, smite it, and die as the other 4 members of my team get the free buff. And the enemy team always proceeds to flame the jungler. No matter the situation, if the enemy steals baron, I guarantee somebody is gonna flame the jungler.

So please, avoid the hassle, don't throw, and let the guy with 1k true damage decide to do Baron.

Note: If you're playing top with smite, or are playing Nunu or Cho'Gath, feel free to call Baron/Dragon, assuming you'll be there.

7 Comments

Lucentile2 votes

If someone calls dragon/baron, and you don't have smite, ping danger and type "No Smite." It might, however, STILL be a good idea to grab them anyway.

As support, plenty of times I've seen that the enemy team was completely at the opposite side of the map/dead or going B, and we had a free Baron/dragon. For whatever reason, the Jungler didn't see it.

Believe it or not, people other than the jungler might have a good idea on what the team should do at a given moment.

Phife1 votes

Note: if you are the jungler and its at this point in the game (past 30min) you shouldn't be smiting anything but drag / baron / gromp

Visigoth2 votes

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Note: if you are the jungler and its at this point in the game (past 30min) you shouldn't be smiting anything but drag / baron / gromp

Raptors... Vision OP man, plus if you have Chilling/Challenging smite those can swing fights in your team's favor.

Phife1 votes

you shouldnt smite raptors because after 10 min in you should have your sweepers already....

chilling / skirmishers yeah... those have their own purpose but Still should keep in mind smite does 1000 damage to baron and it does ~100 to champions, which seems more logical to save it for?

Zavern1 votes

If a team leaves the call to two major objectives to a sole player, 9 times out of 10, said objective is going to be taken by the enemy team.

CreepyAnts1 votes

In my opinion objectives are for the whole team to keep track on specialy mid-late game.Yes jungler has to have smite on for a more secure way to obtain the objective BUT. There are junglers and junglers out there and not all of them keep track of what's going on so well.Yes sometimes opportunity comes to get lets say a drake when you killed bot duo along with their jungler on a gank or turned them away running on 10% hp and jungler is either away from drake or has no smite.At this point adc with his support can secure the kill with good vision over mid lane.There are junglers thay decide to go for it just because they can solo it (like an eraly Vi or WW or Nunu) so they go ahead do it with no vision ending up loosing the drake and giving a free kill thats why i said there are junglers and junglers.As jungler you need to keep track on the buffs and even ask your team to setup on an objective (like drake or baron) and specialy mid-late don't use both your smites.Keep one always up for when opportunity comes to smite an objective and you'll be fine :D

Miku Lv991 votes

You mean 30 minutes into the game you're still wasting your smites on some random camp that you could clear in 3 seconds anyways? Save them for champions and baron and dragon. Also sometimes your team can take them essentially uncontested and then you don't need smite. Also, Kalista

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