User blog comment:The5lacker/Going smiteless/@comment-5556439-20130630200158

Theres only about 4 junglers in the game that can go from blue to golems then red and live on only 5 pots and hold half health....There just arent many. Even with the defensive setup that most junglers use in their runes/masteries. Using smite at your first buff is usually the sign of an inexperienced jungler who has usually no concept of "I might get counterjungled if the enemy has a grain of sense" so not having your smite up means you cant defend against it, you cant bait it, and you cant counterjungle THEIR stuff. Thats why you get a leash. You obviously arent getting a proper leash. A proper leash has you and 2 others trading aggro from the buff and aiding until its about 10% HP this leaves everyone more or less full health and the buff dies in about 6 seconds. Not to mention going that far into the utility tree just for a minor reduction in summoner CDR is pretty worthless I feel when you could be taking early tenacity and the % increase on ALL bonus Armor/MR.

Going smiteless means your saving smite for the oppurtunity to make the game easier for your team man. Theres a difference between "Im not smiting cuz its noob" and "Im not smiting because its fucking Udyr and hell be sitting at red bush". Also smiting for clear time is dumb in its own right, if your champion has slow clear time than that means they have slow clear time, nothing wrong with that. Taking off 4 or 5 seconds of your clear time means absolutely nothing.