Core plays and lineup construction for LoL (6/24)

We have a four-game LPL/LCK,  best of 3 slate on 6/24, which starts at 4 a.m. ET. I’m here to break down my top DFS builds as well as my strategy for this slate. The building itself is especially important. If you haven’t had a chance, read up on the Esports 101 article.

I want to stress the importance of #hedgelife. Dive into this, as it is very important to my success in Esports.

As previously mentioned, my focus for this article is my plan for these slates. I have gone into this plenty in the past, but I want to discuss #hedgelife and what this means. When I say hedge, I really mean that we want to have action on both sides of the match. I will provide a ranking of my favorite stacks, but just because a stack is ranked last doesn’t mean I’ll have them in just one of my lineups. A few people have been lucky with game stacking in some of these slates, which means having both teams playing each other as your lineup. I do not recommend this approach, as it doesn’t often hit. Make sure to follow my Twitter for updates on starting lineups and any changes that I will be making as I research throughout the day. 

Lastly, I want to touch on contest selection. It’s the most important thing to me, and it’s the reason I hit big more often than not. A lot of DFS players focus on playing in contests with 35,000 people because it’s only $10 to enter and they feel it’s easy to win money. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had a takedown and it barely cashed in the big GPP. Focus on contests with about 250-300 people, where you can max 7-10 entries. Use the #hedgelife strategy and max enter this contest and use the strategy in this article to profit. Trust me on this one.

Something else I want to touch on is the process. I’ve mentioned this quite a few times, but I thought I’d break it down further.

• Contest selection: If you don’t follow me on Twitter, please make sure you do. On a nightly basis, I’ve been tweeting my favorite contests. Find a way to do 10 lineups and focus on contests with under 500 people.
• #HedgeLife: I took a deep dive into this above, but here’s what I mean. If you do a 4-3 BLG-SB line, make sure you also do a 4-3 SB-BLG line. Do one line of four-man SB with SB CPT, then in your next line, do a four-man BLG with BLG CPT. Covers you on both grounds.
• #HedgeLife part deux: If you’re doing 10 lineups with five BLG stacks, make sure to do 2-3 DMO stacks to hedge that game.

Feel free to reach out with any questions if you have them. It seems like a lot, but it’s important to see what has made me successful in Esports. 

LPL/LCK

Welcome back to the “good” League of Legends, which consists of the LPL and LCK. We are coming out of an MSI that featured an LPL and LCK grand final in which the LPL got their revenge. There are a few stands I’m taking in regards to not hedging, but there will be some hedging tonight. 

My focus is around teams that were toward the top in deaths per match last split. Since the teams haven’t had a ton of changes since a few weeks ago, it’s easy to find the targets. Based on my projections, my four-man stacks will mainly come from RNG, GEN and EDG/SN. My locks of the night will be around EDG and GEN because of the matchup and locked-in victory for me. That being said, I will 1000% #hedgelife with ONE LSB lineup against GEN. If doing 10 lineups, I’ll just do one lineup of LSB and in a small entry contest.

I have a better feeling tonight over last night for sure. My top stack is clearly RNG and GEN. With RNG, I’ll have the majority of my stacks being four-man, but will have some two-man just in case RNG wins too fast. As for GEN, I prefer two-man stacks given how slow they’ve played plus the LCK matches have been a real snoozer.

EDG and SN along with T1 and NS are my hedge matchups. I will have 75% EDG versus 25% SN given I believe EDG is a top-three team in the LPL. I think SN is a very good team as well, but they feed in losses and have one of the highest death totals in losses.  EDG usually plays more objective-oriented and isn’t as aggressive, so I lean more two-man stacks, but given SN has a ton of deaths per loss, I will have some four-man stacks.

As for T1 and NS, I honestly don’t trust the T1 lineup even though we expect the same starters. The only real safe spot is Keria, who is the support player. Canna and Teddy might be safe, but if they lose a match, I expect subs to occur. I prefer T1 two-man stacks even though they’ve been more aggressive. NS is usually a slower team as well, so I also prefer two-man stacks here. I don’t think I’ll have four-man stacks, and I’ll hedge it 50/50 with my lean towards NS.

Cliff notes: RNG is the safest, but you’ve been warned about recent play. Play a ton of RNG/GEN/EDG and hedge it with SN. 

Stack rankings

1. RNG
2. GEN
3. EDG
4. NS
5. SN
6. T1
7. LSB

Player pool

• RNG

  • CPT Options – Wei, Gala, Xhaihou

  • Player Pool – All in play 

• GEN

  • CPT Options – Clid, Ruler

  • Player Pool –  #NeverLife – Avoid him. The rest are fine. Less on BDD. My focus is really Ruler and Rascal

• EDG

  • CPT Options –  JieJie, Flandre, Viper

  • Player Pool – All in play (less on Flandre, but will have some exposure)

• NS

  • Player Pool – Peanut, Deokdam, Rich

• SN

  • CPT Options – Huanfeng

  • Player Pool –  Huanfeng, Angel, Bin (ON and SOFM are okay in four man stacks)

• T1

  • Player Pool – Keria, Teddy, Canna

• LSB

  • Player Pool – Summit, Croco, FATE

Sample build

CPT –  EDG JNG
TOP –  NS TOP
JNG – NS JNG
MID – EDG MID
ADC – EDG ADC
SUP – EDG SUP
TEAM – NS TEAM