What Is Red Smite and Blue Smite in League of Legends

Smite
Challenging
Chilling

Smite is a unit-targeted summoner spell, it deals true damage to the target large or medium monster, enemy minion, or pet and heals you when cast on large monsters.

It is required to buy Emberknife and Hailblade .

Upgrades

The following items upgrade Smite after being cast 5 times by granting additional effects:

Emberknife grants Challenging Smite .
Hailblade grants Chilling Smite .

Strategy

Smite is generally used for jungling. Beyond dramatically speeding up clear time, its high damage provides a strategic last-hit advantage at high-priority buffs like Dragon and Baron Nashor .
Smite can also be used to push a lane more quickly. When doing so, it's generally best to save Smite for siege minions.
- An unconventional use of Smite is to instantly and unexpectedly kill a minion to land skillshots such as Rocket Grab or Death Sentence on enemy champions behind it.
Smite deals true damage, so it will always deal the stated amount; it cannot be reduced or amplified in any way other than a few exceptions, such as the damage bonus from Prowler's Claw.
Smite can target pets, such as Tibbers , Malzahar's Voidlings , and Zac's bloblets . It's also a very effective counter to Shaco's boxes .
Smite heals Hecarim while his Spirit of Dread is activated.

Notes

Smite has no cast time and can be cast during the cast times and channels of other abilities.
Smite starts with one charge on a 15-second cooldown and gains an additional charge every 90 seconds starting from 1:30, with a maximum of 2 charges.
The recharge cooldown of this spell can be reduced by summoner spell haste.
Chilling Smite and Challenging Smite are fully negated by spell shield and the debuffs they apply can be removed by Cleanse .
Chilling Smite will not grant bonus movement speed if the slow was not applied.
Smiting an enemy champion will draw the aggro of nearby minions, just like most single target attacks or abilities.
Challenging Smite's burn lasts for 3.25 seconds and applies its damage over 3 ticks. The damage over time does not start ticking until after 0.5 seconds, and each tick occurs in 0.75-second intervals. The debuff lingers for 0.5 seconds once all of these ticks have been applied.
- Each tick deals 16 − 41.67 (based on level) true damage.
- Subsequent attacks and ability damage will refresh the burn to 3 seconds.
  - If the burn is refreshed at any point after the first 3 ticks, an additional 4 ticks will occur, for a total of 7 ticks. This is the maximum number of ticks that may occur with a single application of the mark debuff, thus the burn can deal up to 112 − 291.67 (based on level) true damage.

Summoner spell haste
Summoner's Rift
Base cooldown ▶	360s ( )	300s ( )	240s ( )	210s ( )	180s ( )	90s ( )	20s ( )
▼ Haste	360s ( )	300s ( )	240s ( )	210s ( )	180s ( )	90s ( )	20s ( )
12 ( )	321.43s	267.86s	214.29s	187.5s	160.71s	80.36s	17.86s
18 ( )	305.08s	254.24s	203.39s	177.97s	152.54s	76.27s	16.95s
30 ( )	276.92s	230.77s	184.62s	161.54s	138.46s	69.23s	15.38s
Howling Abyss
Base cooldown ▶		300s ( )	240s ( )	210s ( )	180s ( )	80s ( )	20s ( )
▼ Haste		300s ( )	240s ( )	210s ( )	180s ( )	80s ( )	20s ( )
70 ( )		176.47s	141.18s	123.53s	105.88s	47.06s	11.76s
82 ( )		164.84s	131.87s	115.38s	98.9s	43.96s	10.99s
88 ( )		159.57s	127.66s	111.7s	95.74s	42.55s	10.64s
100 ( )		150s	120s	105s	90s	40s	10s

Removed upgrades

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Blasting
Scavenging

The following removed items upgraded Smite by granting additional effects:

Ranger's Trailblazer granted Blasting Smite .
Poacher's Knife granted Scavenging Smite .

Trivia

The first icon for Smite was edited to have gold on it for the icon for the Season 2011 mastery Plentiful Bounty.
The first icon for Smite bears close resemblance to that of the spell Dark Ritual, which belonged to the Lich hero in DotA.
Pentakill's first volume, Pentakill: Smite and Ignite, was named after Smite and Ignite .

Media

Videos
Old Icons

Sound Effects

Activation (Smite/Challenging Smite)

Summoner Spell SFX

Activation (Chilling Smite)

Summoner Spell SFX

Chilling Smite received

Summoner Spell SFX

Challenging Smite received

Summoner Spell SFX

Patch history

V12.10

Base heal reduced to 80 from 90.
Heal health ratio reduced to 7.5% maximum health from 10%.

V12.4

Bug Fix: Tooltip across multiple tooltips have been corrected to display the accurate damage values of the spell.

V11.20

Heal health ratio reduced to 10% maximum health from 15%.

V11.14

Challenging Smite and Chilling Smite
- Bug Fix: VFX now properly appears upon using it against monsters.

V11.13 - June 23rd Hotfix

Chilling Smite and Challenging Smite
- Bug Fix: VFX have been restored against monsters.

V11.13

Challenging Smite and Chilling Smite
- Damage to minions and pets changed to 500 (+ 10% of target's maximum health) from 900.

V11.10

Challenging Smite
- Monster damage changed to 900 at all levels from 390 − 1000 (based on level)
Chilling Smite
- Monster damage changed to 900 at all levels from 390 − 1000 (based on level)
Smite
- Heal health ratio increased to 15% maximum health from 10%.
- Damage changed to 450 at all levels from 390 − 1000 (based on level).

V11.6

Base heal increased to 90 from 70.

V11.3

Bug Fix: No longer goes on a cooldown longer than intended if used before jungle monsters spawned.

V10.24

Bug Fix: Can no longer one-hit kill jungle monsters through a series of steps involving Smite.

V10.23

Challenging Smite
- Now acquired with Emberknife after using Smite 5 times, instead of with Skirmisher's Sabre .
- Abilities now apply and refresh the burn alongside basic attacks.
- Damage reduction now has VFX and displays the amount reduced as combat text.
Chilling Smite
- Now acquired with Hailblade after using Smite 5 times, instead of with Stalker's Blade .
- Champion damage reduced to 20 − 156 (based on level) from 28 − 166 (based on level).

V10.14

Chilling Smite
- Bug Fix: Now properly grants a Conqueror stack.

V9.2

Challenging Smite
- Total damage reduced to 48 − 125 (based on level) from 60 − 162 (based on level).
- Damage over time duration reduced to 2.5 seconds from 3.
- Removed: No longer grants vision for the mark duration.

V9.1

New Effect: Can now ping the amount of damage dealt to monsters.

V8.18

When assigned as Jungle on Draft queues, one of your summoner spells will be swapped to Smite.

V8.2

Challenging Smite
- New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.
Chilling Smite
- New Effect: Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.

V7.24

Bug Fix: Cooldown no longer reduces to 15 seconds when cast before 1:30.

V7.22

Level requirement reduced to 9 from 10.

V7.16

Challenging Smite
- Bug Fix: Damaging effect now properly counts as damage-over-time effect.

V7.3

Challenging Smite
- Bug Fix: No longer incorrectly states that it grants vision of stealthed champions.

V6.24 December 14th Hotfix

Base heal reduced to 70 from 100.

V6.22

Smite buffs removed.
New Effect: Against large monsters, Smite now restores 100 (+ 10% maximum health) health.
Recharge timer increased to 90 seconds from 75.
Recharge timer now start at 1:40 instead of 1:25.

V6.1

No longer applies spell effects such as Rylai's Crystal Scepter or spell vamp.

V5.18

Challenging Smite
- Challenge now properly removed by Cleanse .

V5.1

Now uses a charge system, regenerating charges every 75 seconds, storing up to 2 charges from a cooldown of seconds.
Smite starts with 1 charge and only begins to gain additional charges at 1:40.
Cooldown between Smite casts changed to 15 seconds.

V4.21

Skirmisher's Sabre extra damage on hit effect was replaced with true damage over 3 seconds.
Upgrading to Ranger's Trailblazer no longer grants reduced cooldown for Smite.
Hunter's Machete now grants +10 gold per large jungle monster
All tier 2 and 3 jungle items now grant +20 gold per large jungle monster
Smite Rewards adjusted:
- Gift of Heavy Hands, required hits to stun: 6 instead of 5.
- Gift of the Toadstool: 4 + (8 x level) magic damage over 3 seconds from 6 + (6 x level) magic damage over 3 seconds.

V4.20

Can now be upgraded through the purchase of any of four different jungle items
Cooldown increased to 60 seconds from 40.
Smite Rewards added:
- Smiting the Ancient Krug grants Gift of Heavy Hands - stuns minions and monsters every 1st and 5th hit. Your first attack against a turret deals 50 (+15 per level) true damage but consumes this buff. Lasts 90 seconds.
- Smiting the Crimson Raptor grants Razor Sharp - gives you a warning and magical sight for 10 seconds when an enemy ward spots you. Lasts 90 seconds, with 1 charge.
- Smiting the Greater Murk Wolf creates a Rift Spirit - summons a Rift Spirit that watches over a portion of the jungle. Lasts 90 seconds, but that timer goes down when the spirit chases enemies.
- Smiting the Gromp grants Gift of the Toadstool - attackers are poisoned for 6 (+ 6 per level) magic damage over 3 seconds. Lasts 90 seconds.
- Smiting the Red Brambleback restores 20% of maximum health.
- Smiting the Blue Sentinel restores 25% of maximum mana.

V4.1

Icon updated

V3.14

Cooldown reduced to 40 seconds from 70.
Damage reduced to 390-1000 from 490-1000.

V1.0.0.153

Damage increased to 490-1000 from 445-870.

V1.0.0.129

Now improved in the Defense tree instead of Offense.
Improved Smite no longer reduces cooldown but the gold gained on cast is increased to 10 from 5.
Cooldown reduced to 70 seconds from 75 seconds.

V1.0.0.125

Fixed a bug where you could Smite Baron from behind his den.

V1.0.0.111

Now deals true damage instead of magic damage.

V1.0.0.97

Now removes stealth when used.

V1.0.0.94(b)

Damage per level reduced to 25 from 35.

V0.8.21.110

Damage reduced to 420 + 35 × level from 575 + 25 × level (1050 total down from 1060).

June 26, 2009 Patch

Plentiful Bounty (mastery) – Increases the gold granted by Smite by 5, and reduces the cooldown by 5 seconds.

June 12, 2009 Patch

Fixed a bug with Consume , Smite , and other spells that would make them not castable for periods of time where they looked like they were castable.

April 25, 2009 Patch

Damage changed from 600 to 575 + 25 × level.

Alpha Week 6

Cooldown increased to 90 seconds from 75 seconds.
Damage is now reduced by the target's magic resistance.

Alpha Week 4

Plentiful Bounty mastery bonus gold from Smite decreased to 5 from 10.

Summoner spells

Common	Barrier · Cleanse · Exhaust · Flash ( Hexflash ) · Ghost · Heal · Ignite
Common	Recall
Map-exclusive	Clarity ^H · Mark / Dash ^H · Teleport ^S · Smite ^S ( Challenging Smite · Chilling Smite )
Map-exclusive	Empowered Recall ^S
Featured Game Mode	Poro Toss / Poro Dash ^H · To the King! ^H · Resuscitate · Warp
Removed	Blasting Smite · Clairvoyance · Enhanced Recall · Fortify · Garrison · Observer · Promote · Rally · Revive · Scavenging Smite · Stifle · Surge · Backtrack