Talk:Ancient Golem/@comment-174.254.83.170-20120427052152/@comment-5606883-20130221071259

Since nobody really answered, I will.

Leaving the smaller lizards alive on the enemy's jungle is a tactic used to:

1) demoralize the enemy

2) make the enemy jungler miss out on exp (very needed for the jungler) and gold

3) deny the enemy mid the blue buff

So, its to cripple the enemy team. This is even more effective when the enemy team waits a minute or two to "take" their blue buff, only to see its gone, which means they have to wait EVEN longer to have that buff.