User blog comment:Dj0z/Dj0z's Assassin Nocturne Guide/@comment-99.42.142.25-20120524231000/@comment-5045559-20120526001803

Well that is constructive criticism, so let me respond properly:

-If Smite is more vital to you than Flash, then by all means pick it. It's one of the recommandations at the end of the guide, but i find it pretty risky. The second enemies realize you don't have Flash, you become a priority target for ganks all game long. I wouldn't do that without a premade ally at least (and i very rarely have one, they're already ingame and i don't wanna wait).

-For the little pick trick, this is not proper ranked behavior but this guide is not meant for ranked. As for normals, doing it that way often causes confusion, while keeping CV from start to end of pick can sometimes cause anger and bad team communication instead. So all in all, the trick aims to preserve team spirit, which is not evil (but i can understand it sounds like it the guide).

-About Baron/Dragon, well this Noc tries to establish map awareness domination, which if effective, secures large areas of the map for your team, leading to a win by superior farm. Baron and Dragon areas should be within those borders, making any enemy approach to steal it likely to fail. Now there's the global range ultimate like Ezreal and Ziggs who may manage to steal it anyways if the support didn't pinkward or oracle out enemy wards there, but such steals are heavily luck-based.

-For red and blue buffs, the 2 standard Smite steal consists in: sneaking in unseen and doing them, which shouldn't happen because of Wriggles and CV; and the 2nd is camping the bush right next to the buff (red especially) then smite-killing it after the poor jungler did the work, then killing him. For this one it's pretty simple, always pull the lizard into that bush with you, (the range is long enough he won't retreat), which lets you see that jungler approaching, at what point you immediately react (burst lizard with spells or disengage so it regens to 100%) and ping to your allies. More often than not, mid and top are able to trap him and he ends up dead, especially if the monster regenerated and he decided to fight it for steal anyways.