Karsa's Graves paused for two or three seconds as he neared bot lane, then moved toward the middle brush. He dropped a ward, and there sat one of Big Head's turrets.
"Just as expected." Karsa smiled, then Smitten the turret in front of him and began to retreat.
It was here!
V5's first adjustment against support Big Head was to Smite one of the enemy's turrets at the start.
"Smite the turret!?"
"What's the logic behind that play?"
The three casters were a little baffled. They could understand ordinary game states, but when it came to something involving mind games, their peak-Platinum understanding really couldn't keep up.
But they soon noticed that after Smiting the turret, Graves immediately retreated into the fog of war and recalled. He swapped his trinket ward for a sweeper, then headed toward the Upper Area.
The first response had arrived.
As everyone knew, a jungler running Smite with Cosmic Insight could raise Smite's damage to 900 with five uses by nine minutes at the earliest. But Smiting a turret at the start could push that timing up to 7:30, practically guaranteeing 900 damage before the Rift Herald fight. This tactic relied on two details people usually overlooked:
First: in the support Big Head setup, he would place a turret in the lower mid brush at around thirty-five seconds every game. There was a pattern to follow.
Second: before the one-and-a-half-minute mark, using Smite once gave the jungler the privilege of a fifteen-second Cooldown reset.
After using Smite once, Graves immediately retreated, disappeared, recalled, and swapped to sweeper. That let him either start in the Upper Area to guard against the enemy invading to place wards, or quickly return bot to fill in. The jungler's position would remain hidden either way.
The moment he saw the