The jockey does damage, but it isn't that much. A good jockey jump can mess the survivors up way more than a good smoker pull however, sometimes taking them from 1/4 of the map back to the safe room. :lol
To me it just feels like the Smoker is the one that isn't needed nearly as much anymore. His original purpose is to slow down and annoy, but the new SI can all do this in more effective ways. It's true that if you pull a straggler, you delayed the survivors a little bit...but a Jockey can do so much more with it, curve them around obstacles to make them waste a lot more time, and doesn't have a set distance the backtracking will go like the smoker's reach. The charger can also attack from the front and send someone a good distance back, but also does a TON of damage. I will atleast say I don't have that much good L4D2 experience with the smoker though, I haven't looked for many good spots/don't know of any instant incap spots.
One more thing about the charger I forgot, he is the only normal SI that the melee attack won't effect. You can get up in someone's face, do a slash or two, then immediately charge them. His melee does 10 damage each hit, which is also more than the others. Then the charge on top of it makes it a lot easier to incap!
