Warcries and Smite

Ive tried Battlemage's, Infernal, Ancestral, and Intimidating Cries and none have been able to exert Smite even when in melee range with my mouse on them.

I have tried with both a Vaal and regular Smite. The "exerted attacks" number stays the same, no effects trigger until I use Leap Slam then all but Ancestral change so the tooltip is working right.

I knew it couldn't work with Multistrike but didn't realize it was the duelist FF/FF node too