PSA: laners PLEASE don't take your teams Chickens

This is a quick announcement I wanted to make to help stop a problem that I notice quite frequently. Laners taking their own teams chicken camp. Now why shouldn't you take this camp, You may ask. Isn't it just like taking wraiths? The answer to that is no and here is why you should never take your own teams chickens.

1. Junglers need gold. Now we have all read a thousand threads where junglers tell people not to come in and steal the jungle camps. Well they are right. Those camps are the junglers form of income, and with the increased spawn rates introduced at the start of the new jungle, each camp is more valuable than ever. The jungler already donates a sizable portion of his/her income through the giving of buffs. Taking the jungle camps in general hurts the jungler, but chicken camp actually gives the jungler more gold than the others. This is because if the smites the camp and kills a wad with the buff, the jungler gets an extra 30 gold. This makes the chicken camp potentially worth 100 gold, the equivalent of an entire wave of cs. Just think about that the next time.

2. Vision Wars: The chicken camp gives what is arguably the most useful smite buff out of all of them. Gromp and krugs are useful for clearing, but besides chicken actually helps you clear out enemy wards. This is incredibly useful for when trying to set up ganks , counterjungle, or go for objectives like baron and drag. Even if you do not find a ward, you still know where the enemy team has not warded, so you can use that to know when and where to do stuff. Every time your jungler smited chickens that is potentially 1 less ward the enemy can have on the map.

3. The jungle hurts: This isn't really as much of a problem anymore now that the damage the chickens do has been nerfed, but it used to be that I would have games where the mid laner would go take the chickens and lose half their hp doing it. The jungle hurts, many time syuo take more damage than its worth taking jungle camps if you are not the jungler.

So please go ahead and take wolves if you have too, maybe gromp or krugs now and then, and even the buffs when you have permission, but please please please do not take the chicken camp. I know it is always the camp i want to smite the most when I jungle because of how useful its is. Remember all of the useful things about the camp apply to your enemies as well. If you can steal the enemy chicken camp that is a great help to the team.

TLDR: The chicken camp is realy useful for the jungler to smite so you should not take it. Ty have a nice day.