User blog comment:The5lacker/Going smiteless/@comment-11488255-20130702181522

I don't know about your particular junglers but whenever I jungle (Skarner, Zac, Sejuani, Nunu, Udyr etc.) smite tends to be at around 20 secs+ cooldown when I reach red. Considering that I only need about 12 seconds to bring it down to a smiteable state, the 8 extra seconds forces me to either wait with starting red, or go smiteless on it. Both scenarios inhibit my jungling, and since going smiteless blue is a fairly easy thing to do (with a decent jungler you really only need one more character to help you hit it until they need to be in lane), there's no point in sacrificing time or health for the convinience of using smite.