Talk:Smite/@comment-5359294-20130202000635/@comment-5266525-20130216183701

Ranged champions can get Statikk Shiv or Runaan's Hurricane.

And yes, it's better. 500 magic damage is more than sufficient to instant-kill melee and caster minions into the midgame and it procs every fourth autoattack, whereas Smite is on a 60 second cooldown.