Talk:Smite/@comment-5359294-20130202000635/@comment-5266525-20130217003927

Ah, apologies. I meant to type 'on average every fourth autoattack' but I rewrote my response halfway through and must've forgot to reinclude it. Oh well.

If you are focusing on pushing the lane, which is what you are doing, then Smite is just simply straight-up inferior for the purpose next to, , or even just your champions abilities. You will push the lane FAR harder with a well-placed or  than you ever will with Smite.

Securing buffs for your team is the responsibility of the jungler. Leave the dirty work to them. Anyone else on the team taking Smite over something like is accomplishing nothing except gimping their own combat prowess.

Stealing a buff camp is nice, but you vastly overestimate its importance and the frequency with which it happens. It is NOTHING compared to getting a kill, at any stage of the game, ever. By slaying your opponent you now deny them two minutes of farm and put yourself ahead to snowball your advantage. You've shoved the lane to their tower? Sure, they're going to be behind in CS (and sometimes not even that if they're particularly good at lasthitting), but you are now putting yourself at risk of being ganked, which renders your advantage pointless. Wards will not protect your forever - you can run out, there are too many avenues of attack to watch, laning phase is not the entirety of the game, etc. And when something does inevitably go wrong and you find yourself in a life-or-death skirmish? Smite's going to do jack-all to help you.