Clutch Lab: Esports Trainer

Clutch Lab trains the mechanics of competitive games, one at a time, with everything else taken away. In a real match you get a few chances an hour to practise a dodge, a smite or a reaction shot — and you never know which one you missed. Here you get them back to back, with a clear goal and a score that tells you whether you improved. MOBA Spells come from every side, each announced by its mark on the ground filling up. A narrow fast spear, a wide slow sphere, a fireball with a long cast, an orb that comes back, a chain of strikes in a row: every silhouette says how to dodge it. Survive as long as you can, or play the drills — skillshots, zones, cast reading, reflexes — in ten levels each. Then take on the 1v1s: a duel in a tiny pit where your rival dodges and fires back, a hook duel across a chasm, and a smite drill where you must take the last hit on the monster before an enemy…