Talk:Nunu/@comment-58.172.169.27-20120825100953/@comment-148.188.1.60-20120827070006

No doubt smite is good for junglers, I always take it myself but saying it is a must is just not true.

You dont get your stuff stolen that much really, because it's always a risk for the enemy jungler to come to your jungle. And Nunu can avoid Baron Dragons steals with consume, which deals as much true damage as smite. So you could go without it.

But the point is smite is a low cooldown spell that can be used almost every time it's up, gives you extra gold, faster clear time (--> more ganks). vs some other spell that can be used less often, in bad szenarios you never profit from them for a whole game.

Especially for Nunu, taking exhaust for better ganks is not needed (strong slow from snowball), and other spells really don't hel you that much