How to Smite in LoL and Secure Dragon and Baron

How to Smite in LoL comes down to one rule: an epic monster goes to the team that lands the last hit, so you press Smite at the moment the monster's health falls to your Smite's damage, and not before. Smite is a summoner spell that deals a large, fixed amount of true damage to a monster, which makes it the strongest finishing hit in the game. Everything else is preparation: lanes, vision and knowing where the enemy jungler is.

What Smite is and how to equip it

Smite is one of the summoner spells, the two extra spells every player brings into a match. It unlocks early, after your first few account levels. You equip it in champion select: click one of your two summoner spell slots and choose Smite. In the game it sits on the D or F key by default.

A jungler cannot play without it, because the jungle starting item can be bought only by a player who has Smite. Three things to know about the spell:

• It deals true damage. Armor and magic resistance do not reduce it. The number in its description is exactly what the monster loses.
• It holds two charges. Each one comes back after a while. Keep one for the objective.
• It upgrades during the match. As your jungle item grows, Smite hits monsters harder and can also be cast on enemy champions.

How to Smite in LoL: timing the last hit

1. Know your number. Hover over Smite and read its current damage. It changes with each upgrade.
2. Read the health as a number. Click the monster once and its exact health appears at the top left of the screen.
3. Keep the cursor on the monster. Smite goes to the target under your cursor. With champions fighting inside the pit, a cursor that slides onto an enemy champion wastes the charge on them.
4. Press at your number or under it. Not when the health looks low. If the monster still has more health than your Smite deals, wait.
5. Add an ability if your champion has one. Smite together with a hard-hitting ability finishes the monster from higher health. Consume on Nunu & Willump and Feast on Cho'Gath deal heavy true damage to monsters, which is why both are known for securing objectives.

When the enemy jungler is standing at the pit, your best protection is not a faster finger. It is keeping them out: your team stands between them and the monster, or kills them first.

League of Legends jungle objectives and what they give

• Dragons appear in the pit on the lower side of the river. Each one gives your whole team a permanent boost, and the team that collects four earns a much stronger one, the Dragon Soul. After that comes the Elder Dragon, with a short buff strong enough to end a game.
• Rift Herald sits in the upper pit in the early game. Kill it, pick up what it drops, and you can send it charging into an enemy tower.
• Baron Nashor takes over the upper pit later. Its buff strengthens your champions and the minions near them for a few minutes, and this is how a team breaks into a defended base.

The scoreboard, on the Tab key, shows when each objective will appear. Look at it often.

How to secure Dragon and Baron before the fight starts

Most objectives are decided a minute before anyone touches them.

1. Push the lanes first. Push the mid wave and the wave of the lane closest to the pit. Enemies who walk to the objective then lose minions and tower health, and enemies who stay to clear arrive late.
2. Go back and buy. Arrive with full health, your gold spent and a Control Ward in your inventory.
3. Take the vision. Place wards on the paths the enemy must use, and clear their wards around the pit with a Control Ward and the Oracle Lens. An enemy who cannot see into the pit cannot Smite into it.
4. Arrive first. The team already standing in position decides how the fight starts.
5. Find the enemy jungler. If they are dead, or seen on the far side of the map, start the objective at once: the other team has no Smite. If they are alive and close, deal with them before you bring the monster low.

Know when to give an objective up, too. If your lanes are pushed in and two teammates are far away, take a tower on the other side of the map instead of fighting four against five.

Stealing an objective: when to try

A steal is a last option, and it fails more often than it works. Try it when the objective is lost anyway and your death costs your team little.

You cannot Smite a monster you cannot see, so place a ward over the wall of the pit first. Wait outside, watch the health, and go in only for the last moment: jump or Flash over the wall, press Smite, and expect to die afterward.

Frequent questions about Smite and the jungle

How do I get, equip and upgrade Smite?

Smite unlocks by itself as your account gains its first levels, and you choose it in champion select. The upgrade is not bought: buy the jungle starting item, clear camps, and Smite upgrades on its own as the item grows.

Why do I lose the objective even though I pressed Smite?

Usually for one of three reasons. You pressed early out of nerves, both charges were spent on camps before the fight, or you started without knowing where the enemy jungler was. If you cannot see them on the map, assume they are behind the wall.

What is the point of the jungle role in LoL?

The jungler earns gold and experience from monster camps, not from a lane, helps the lanes with ganks, and leads the team to Dragons and Baron. Our guide to League of Legends roles explains all five.

RP codes for Türkiye server accounts on Mas4Games

A clean Smite costs nothing but practice. The look of your jungler is another matter: skins are bought with RP, the game's paid currency, and change appearance only. Mas4Games sells League of Legends RP codes for accounts on the Türkiye server. The code is shown on the order's page in your account and sent by e-mail.