Can Adept Champion (Grapple Feat) be used as part of a Smite Evil action?


Rules Questions


Smite Evil wrote:
...As a swift action, the paladin chooses one target within sight to smite...
Adept Champion wrote:
Benefit: While using your smite evil class feature, as a swift action at the start of your turn, you can forgo the bonus on damage rolls and instead gain half that bonus as a bonus oncombat maneuver checks against the target of your smite. The effects of your smite evil feature return to normal at the start of your next turn.

The way this looks to me is that the earliest you can use Adept Champion is on the second round of using Smite Evil. I am hoping that I am wrong. It seems awkward to me that you should have to wait a turn to gain the benefits of the feat. Trying to make a grappling-proficient paladin who is unable to use his first move+standard as a divine-powered grapple rubs me the wrong way. Am I misreading it, and can activate Adept Champion during the first round of Smite Evil?

I also do realize that just activating Smite Evil does give +Cha to hit (including CMB).

Thanks, The Bache

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