The New Two-Charge Smite

ChickenWrap·12/3/2014, 7:54:29 PM·2 votes·2,158 views

The 15 second window just makes it feel as though it'll make jungles needlessly fast in the jungle with things like Trailblazer (Purple Smite) as well as when people take Lane Smite, they'll never lose trades if they take Skirmisher's (Red Smite) because of the damage reduction and if they take Stalker's (Blue Smite) they'll be able to constantly slow harass their opponent with true damage. You can't tack it on to the summoner ability. It's going to be far too strong in that state.

What I suggest instead, is to implement a completely new smiting item (Yes, another one)

Harbinger's Hatchet Passive - Double-Tap: The user is able to hold two charges of smite, but can only smite Baron or Dragon once every 15 seconds. In addition, you will not gain additional benefits if you smite a large monster camp twice. (Maybe a debuff?)

Passive - Jungler: Blah blah blah

Make the background glow yellow, orange, or black. I do NOT want double-smite to put lanes in a worse place than they already are with the inability to fight back against things like that. If you do implement a double-smite, do it this way or don't do it at all.

11 Comments

LordKentravyon12/3/2014, 9:11:47 PM4 votes

I really like the idea of having two smites now that we have all the new smite bonuses and options , "I can take the raptor ward clear and still have smite for my gank top" " I can take a bonus and still be relevant for dragon" etc.. I think overall it will boost the options and ingenuity of combining buffs throughout the game.

My only issue is I don't see anything like "Cannot smite target twice for X period of time"

Like Dragon is supposed to be harder now but this will just increase the soloing of it thanks to trailblazer, and oh you were going to contest it? To bad i have two smite charges and you have one. Or as you said the bs from double smiting champions.

I think it will give some great options in the game and truly allow people to make the most of the new jungle buffs but it needs the restriction to stop it from just being abused

ChickenWrap12/3/2014, 8:33:58 PM1 votes

Wish I could bump threads here to spark discussion.

Legostrike12/3/2014, 9:14:45 PM1 votes

This sounds like a good idea.