TL;DW – LTA North Edition: DIG Outlasts SR in Game 2
Week 4, Day 2, 1st week of LTA North the best of 3 matches, DIG vs SR. DIG’s score is 0-0, while SR is 0-0. DIG is playing on blue side, SR on red. SR won the last game. The team roster for DIG is Srtty (top), Sheiden (jungle), Keine (mid), Tomo (carry), and Isles (support). For SR, the team is Fudge (top), Contractz (jungle), Palafox (mid), Bvoy (carry), and Ceos (support). For specifics regarding early, mid, and late game, see the Terms at the bottom of the page.
Champion Selection: Bringing the Beef to LTA North
- Ban phase takes out many of the classics: Gwen, Vi, Poppy, Varus, Aurora, Yone.
- Start off champ selection, DIG takes Kalista. SR respond with Ezreal and Ahri. DIG then take Sylas and Sejuani. SR finish out this first phase with Leona.
- SR targets support picks with Renata and Neeko bans, while DIG target the jungle, banning Skarner and Pantheon.
- Back to champion selection with SR taking Wukong. DIG finish off their team with Alistar and Renekton. SR last pick Gragas. DIG’s team is short ranged but has high dive potential. SR’s team has higher mobility and is more of a catch comp.
- Team comps are: DIG – Renekton (top), Sejuani (jungle), Sylas (mid), Kalista (carry), Alistar (support) vs SR – Gragas (top), Wukong (jungle), Ahri (mid), Ezreal (carry), Leona (support).
Early Game Highlights: A Little Light Aggression
- Early game starts with farming and trading. Keine especially wins out agains Palafox. Contractz caught out in top river. Almost dies to Sheiden and Keine but Palafox manages to save him by charming Sheiden. Contractz and Sheiden both use their Flashes.
- Both top and bot lanes switch. Early game ends with Srtty hitting level 6. DIG has the gold lead (500) and the farm lead.
Mid Game Highlights: Advantages for Both Sides
- Sheiden takes the first set of Voidgrubs uncontested. Farming simulator activate. Isles tries to dive in on Bvoy but he just Arcane Shifts away.
- DIG starts up the first Drake (Hextech), taking it uncontested. Keine jumps on to Palafox just outside of mid lane and steals the Ahri Ultimate. Palafox gets away but is at about half health. Both top and bot lanes switch back.
- SR start up the second set of Voidgrubs. DIG hanging around. Sheiden goes into the pit. Contractz downs 1 Grub before being pushed out. Sheiden gets the rest. Grubs count is now 1 for SR, 5 for DIG.
- Isles and Keine dives Fudge under turret. Fudge almost survives long enough to get First Blood thanks to the turret, but Isles kills him before Keine does down. First Blood to DIG.
- SR start up the second Drake (Infernal). DIG try to contest but SR turn around and engage on them. They jump on Sheiden and kill him first, with Contractz getting the kill. Palafox kills Isles next. The rest of DIG back off and SR take the Drake.
- Mid game ends due to time. DIG has the gold lead (100) and the farm lead.
Late Game Highlights: DIG Soak Up the Damage
- Palafox almost gets killed up top, Flashes away to survive. Isles (with Keine) tries to dive Palafox under turret. Palafox misses the charm, but Isles misses his Pulverize. As Isles retreats, he runs into Ceos. Ceos and Palafox chase Isles away but no one gets any kills.
- Farming and warding as everyone waits for Herald.
- DIG starts up Herald on spawn. SR group up and head over so Sheiden back up for a bit then returns with more back up. As SR reposition, Isles dives in on to Bvoy, who dies to Sheiden. Palafox retaliates by killing Tomo.
- Contractz then kills Isles but Fudge gets killed by Keine. Ceos is the next to fall, dying to Srtty. Finally, Contractz gets chased down and killed by Srtty as well. DIG goes 4-1 but don’t take Herald.
- Srtty takes the outer top turret for First Turret of the game. Sheiden and Tomo take the third Drake (Mountain) uncontested.
- Isles tries to gank Fudge in bot lane from behind. Fudge survives long enough for the rest of his team to arrive. A team fight ensues. Keine takes the out bot turret but Contractz kills Tomo, Palafox takes down Isles, Srtty dies to Contractz, and Ezreal ends Keine. DIG get the objective but SR goes 4-0 and then takes the Voracious Atakhan.
- SR head over to Herald and take it uncontested. Tomo gets caught out in lane, stunned by Ceon and wiped off the map by Palafox. SR also take the outer and mid turrets. Lane pushing and posturing. SR take the outer bot turret. More pushing and posturing.
- As everyone sets up around the fourth Drake, Isles dive in on to Bvoy, who gets away. DIG try to lock up Contractz next but all they do is CC his clone. DIG scramble and run away. SR gives chase. Palafox charms Isles but Tomo pulls him to safety with his ult.
- DIG try to reengage, with Isles throwing himself at SR but he only manages to hit Fudge. Most of SR get low but no one dies. SR has to retreat, and DIG starts up the Drake (Mountain). They take it, reaching Soul Point. SR drop Herald, which Contractz rides down to bot lane as DIG retreat.
- Warding, pushing, and posturing for an extended period of time.
- As everyone dances around Dragon Pit, Isles charge in on to Bvoy. Everyone engages. Sylas dies to Contractz while tries to take down Bvoy, Fudge gets locked down and killed by Sheiden, Srtty rips through Ceos, Contractz takes out Tomo then removes Sheiden, and finally Palafox chase down Srtty and ends him with a charm. Isles runs away. 4-2 for SR and they take the fifth Drake (Mountain).
- After taking the Drake, SR goes after Baron, taking it without contest. Using Baron Buff, SR takes inner top turret, base top turret, and top inhibitor. As SR moves over to mid lane, they get caught inside the base of DIG. While Contractz and Fudge manages to dash over the wall, Ceos can’t and gets killed.
- Pushing and warding while waiting for Drake to spawn. SR takes the sixth Drake uncontested. Lots of posturing even after Drake and Baron spawn. No one wants to make the first move. Srtty is split-pushing. Takes inner bot turret. SR set up around Baron, try to bait DIG in. They don’t bite so SR start up Baron.
- DIG hovers around before going in. Isles jumps on to Contractz but he gets away. The fight is chaotic with everyone jumping around and switching targets. Players are getting low. Keine manages to slip through and takes out Palafox. Contractz kills Sheiden but Keine takes out Fudge immediately after.
- Tomo explodes Ceos. Contractz tries to chase down a very low Isles but can’t get to him. Get dropped into the GA revive. He tries to get away when he comes back up but dies to Keine. Fight oes 4-1 for DIG who take Baron off the back of this fight.
- Fudge gets caught out. SR try to help but he’s killed by Srtty. DIG charge forward. Tomo kills Ceos and Keine deletes Contractz. With only 2 members of SR left up, DIG barrel forward to end the game. Tomo kills Palafox before DIG destroying the Nexus.
Post Game Analysis: This Game Went on for Too Long
DIG ends the game at 43:28 with a 2.5k gold lead. The final score was 16-15 for DIG. SR let this game go for too long. They had advantages early and should have moved faster. Instead, they allowed DIG, who had several very beefy characters, to scale and gain considerable amounts of health, making them much harder to kill. This ends up costing SR the game.
Palafox also should have gotten some Magic Pen to help deal with the large health bars of DIG. Instead, the Renekton, Sejuani, Sylas, and Alistar were all able to survive massive amounts of damage and then wreck SR’s team. Long games against “tanks” rarely work out well.
Terms
Early Game: Any time before 6 minutes, first outer tower down, or first level 6 (whichever comes first).
Mid Game: Between early game and either 15 minutes, 2 inner towns down, half the players are level 11, or 3rd dragon killed.
Late Game: Any time after mid game.
