Weekly Inhouse Spotlight #6 eSports Central

Highlights:

13:10 - First Blood
15:50 - Invade goes bad
21:20 - Scuffle top, 2v3
27:50 - Towerdive bot lane
31:00 - Corki shut down
46:30 - Baron Fight
49:40 - Blue loses inhib
52:10 - Raid Boss Darius
54:40 - Baron Fight
58:20 - Last fight

Analysis:

Nice gank by Darius and Trundle at Nocturne's Red Buff. However, this could have been easily avoided if Lee Sin had come to Red as soon as Darius left, or at least called that Darius was missing. If top lane goes mia that early in the game you can be pretty sure something is up. Also, Nocturne could have pulled Lizard Elder into the brush so that he had vision to see if someone was coming to gank him, which is what most junglers do.

An early kill for Darius lets him dominate the lane. He gets ahead in CS even though Lee Sin does a good job of not dying to him. One of the best ways to shut a Darius down is by ganking him since he has no escapes, but Nocturne was behind and couldn't help top lane much.

In bot lane Corki gets an early kill on Soraka. This lets Purple Team dominate the lane and Caitlyn falls incredibly behind in CS. Corki + Leona is a very strong kill lane, and you can't let them get ahead like that. At one point Caitlyn stays at the tower alone, and gets killed under tower by Leona and Corki. If the enemy can kill you just leave the tower so they don't get a kill and a tower.

During mid game Blue team manages to kill Nocturne in his jungle, and uses this time to take Dragon. Since Purple Team's jungler was dead they can easily secure the Dragon without having to worry about someone stealing or contesting it. Acting fast on these kinds of situations is essential to win games.

At 31:00 Corki pushes out too far and gets shut down by Blue Team. The kill was secured nicely by a Lux Finales Funkein and a Caitlyn Ace in the hole. Purple Team keeps pushing out too far and getting killed, lessening their advantage. Blue Team slowly catches up in gold and eventually gains an advantage.

Purple team wins a teamfight then takes Baron, putting them significantly ahead of Blue Team. Purple and Blue go back and forth, until Blue takes the next Baron. This game really showed how close games can get if the game goes on a long time, since an ace will mean victory.

This game was very close, and fun to watch. Good game fellow MOBAFire members! :D

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