User blog comment:QuantumFeint/The Skirmishing ADC Experiment/@comment-26435768-20150609070047

Makes no sense. First of all. Adc's and support usually already take gromp or grugs for that early lvl 2 advantage and gold. Second of all challenging smite's range is really really really small. What's the main job of an adc? POSITIONING well and dealing damage to the closest target towards them. ANY adc can outduel a tank atm. Through orb walking and lifesteal. Also heal is way too powerful to sacrifice it for smite. Seriously. It's not only life saving for you, but also for your teammates. There's a reason why bot lane has ditched barrier over this spell.

Granted some stats on a jungler item might be good for the adc, but does it overtake other items an adc is used to? Hell no. The main job of the current tanks in this meta is to straight out cc/disrupt the backline and hell the current meta tanks are really good at it. Most of these mentioned meta tanks got point and click spells enough to disrupt your backline and allow your carries to make quick work of them. Nunu, volibear, thresh, Alistar, Sejuani, Gragass, nautilus, Moakai, Sion, hell even fcking evelyn can aoe slow your carries to set them up for a cc chain. Be real for a moment, why do you think people tend to say 'lolno' to Vayne despite it being a tank meta? Cause her small range is extremely hard for her to do anything safely. Yes she has been used and it requires a lot of peel to take care of her. (Well she's also only truly strong in late and comparing her to what other adc's provide she's kinda in a weird spot atm but anyway..) Point is, if an adc has to get close to use challenging smite then they're doing it wrong in the first place. Cause no way in hell you wanna be in that position to use that unless you're 1v1ing the opposing enemy adc or sustained apc. (Good luck doing that against an Azir tho.) Bursty mages will just wait till the crap is over before killing you and they're all prettttyyyyyyy mobile to stay away from you for a few seconds if they must.

It's a bad idea imo. You can try it but the succes rate will be rather low. Not only will your support hate you, but you will generally slap yourself for even considering it everytime you lose lane. And you'll face quite some reports from butthurts for trying something new and..kinda illogical. Smite toplane has been used for a reason and does not work on ANY top lane champ. Your smite botlane is a random idea with no real reasoning behind it except for the fact that toplane has it lmao.