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Smite Top

Gnart Even Close··1 votes·107 views

When Smite top was popular, it was because Cinderhulk was incredibly overpowered and Challenging Smite made the tradeoff of a summoner spell worth it to access the item. The second smite was interesting for securing objectives, dueling, getting extra camps, etc. There was a huge tradeoff as you had to give up Flash, the most popular and powerful summoner spell. You lost an escape and did not get the power spike of Challenging Spike until maybe 12 minutes into the game. It will be interesting to see if Smite comes back to the top lane after nerfs to Teleport or if only Ignite will make it. Now that Cinderhulk is reasonable, I don't see why Riot should have a problem with it. Thoughts?

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Dreadlocks1 votes

They never did. The problem was it was TOO strong ALL the time. And it was more useful top lane than in the jungle (initial reason for being made)

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