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Is it bad to kill early inhibitors?
Watch Phreak’s video, too!
Summary of this video for the TL;DW crowd: in 98.5% of cases where a team has taken a pre-20:00 inhibitor in a Worlds-qualifying league in 2021, they have won the game. The one loss came from terrible throws. And in the examples I looked at of games where the gold gap narrowed during the inhibitor, it always happened because of dumb mistakes, not because of the enemy team freezing super minion waves.
Academy Standouts: 2021 Summer, Week 11
Academy Standouts highlights the players who performed best in the most recent week of NA Academy play. I’ll discuss a few of the most noteworthy standouts, then list some other players whose performances caught my eye below.
Last week there were two Semifinals matches, so I’m going to highlight the standout player from each series.
Isles, Support, Cloud9 Academy
Much of the C9 Academy vs. FlyQuest Academy series was a support duel, with Isles and Dreams trading influence on the map and making big plays for their teams.
Isles prevailed in the end, picking up wins on Leona, Nautilus, and Alistar while dropping games on Karma and Nautilus.
Isles Stats
| KDA | KP | DTH% | WPM | WCPM | |
| SFs | 4.6 | 56.9% | 16.7% | 1.41 | 0.42 |