Talk:Skirmisher's Sabre/@comment-8550255-20141121141446/@comment-25271423-20141123195808

The advantage of this:

smite has lower cooldown then ignite

smite can be used to try and take a jungle camp at level 1 for a quick level 2

smite with Sabre gives vision and damage reduction and has the potential to deal more damage then ignite

The dissadvantages are

Smite does very little before you get Skirmisher's Sabre

You need to use an item slot for Skirmishers sabre and Devourer while good has the dissadvantage of not stacking with Armor pen or Crit and Infinity Edge (though I suppose it is fine if you get enough stacks and early it doesn't matter much)

Ignite is guaranteed damage and reduce healing while smite can deal little to no damage if the enemy run away or you get CC'ed or something like that

You might need a defensive summoner (barrier/heal) though the 20% damage reduction can help mitigate burst damage if you are able to smite them before they use the burst on you