When watching jungle guides on YouTube, people who start off with Krugs never seem to get the red buff smite bonus. Almost all of them do this.
- Krugs, use smite
- Red buff
- Raptors, use smite
It makes more sense, to me, to do this
- Krugs, use smite
- Raptors
- Red Buff, use smite
This way you don't rely so much on your pots because you smited back essentially two pots worth of hp.
Is there a reason for not doing this?
Best Answer
The reason is krugs give a bonus stun on every 5 attacks when you smite it. Raptors will also give a buff after you smite it allowing you to see wards that see you, a temporarily oracles.
If you smite red you get a small health bonus from it. The raptor bonus has way more potential to help when you gank a lane to see if there is any wards you are seen by when heading towards a lane.
The krugs bonus helps you take even less damage every time you proc the stun way better then a one time health bonus.