Core plays and lineup construction for LoL (7/3)

We have a whole host of Esports slates ahead of us Friday. There’s a five-game best-of-three LPL/LCK at 3 a.m. ET, a best-of-one LEC slate at 11 a.m., and a best-of-one LCS at 5 p.m. 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 around 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 imp–fortant to see what has made me successful in Esports. 

LPL/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 as far as not hedging, but there will be some hedging here. 

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 WE, FPX, and LSB.

WE is the one that I’m leaning more two-man stacks over four-man stacks because OMG does have a tendency to not push fights. They’ve been more aggressive this split so I don’t mind taking shots on four-man WE stacks, but the focus is mainly two-man stacks. I want a ton of exposure to four-man stacks with FPX and LSB with the priority being FPX. I’m not a believer in IG and they feed in losses so load up on FPX tonight. 

When it comes to LNG and RA, I am chasing LNG in this spot. Last split, this was one of the lowest scoring matches in all of LPL. RA tends to play slower, but LNG has paced up this split. My lean is LNG, but I’ll hedge a few with RA. I’ll play LNG in four-man and two-man stacks, but only play two-man stacks with RA. 

I think AF and T1 has some sneakiness to it, but not with the heavy favorite, which is T1. I like AF in this spot, but given how fast both are playing, I think I’ll focus on two-man stacks more than anything else. I’m not feeling too many four-man stacks from here. I lean AF over T1 with minimal hedging to T1.

Stack rankings

• FPX
• LSB
• WE
• LNG
• AF
• RA
• T1

 Player pool

• FPX
  • CPT options — Tian, DoinB
  • Player pool — All in play (Less on Nuguri and Crisp, but will have some in four-man stacks)
• LSB
  • CPT options — FATE, Croco
  • Player pool — All in play (Less on Prince actually and FADE Effort)
• WE
  • CPT options — Shanks, Beishang, Elk
  • Player pool — All in play (Less on Missing)
• LNG
  • CPT options — Light, Icon, Tarzan
  • Player pool — All in play (less on Ale — borderline FADE)
• AF
  • Player pool — Kiin, Leo, Dread, Lehends
• RA
  • Player pool — FoFo, IBoy, Hang, Leyan
• T1
  • Player pool — Teddy, Cuzz, Keria

LEC

Remember that this is a best-of-one series and my least favorite, but something we have an edge on still.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 off my projections, the safest stacks will come from VIT and FNC. Sneaky upside with AST and S04 match as I think it will be sloppy and four-man stack will be optimal here. Behind this match, I love the upside for MSF and G2 as well as both teams feed in losses. There’s a ton of upside on this slate. 

I’m less inclined to play RGE-MAD because of pace of RGE, but MAD feeds in losses so I can see why you want exposure here. RGE doesn’t really feed in losses, so I prefer playing RGE if anything.

As I mentioned, AST vs. S04 and MSF vs. G2 are the four-man stacks I want and pairing them with the safer matches of VIT and FNC. FNC and VIT lost in matches they should have easily won last time, so you’ve been warned.

Stack rankings

• MSF (or G2)
• AST (or S04)
• FNC
• VIT
• RGE

 Player pool

• MSF
  • CPT options — Razork, Vetheo
  • Player pool — All in play (FADE Vander and less on Kobbe)
• FNC
  • CPT options — Bwipo, Upset
  • Player pool — All in play (Less on Adam and Hylissang)
• VIT
  • CPT options — Selfmade, Crownshot
  • Player pool — All in play (Less on SLT and Labrov)
• RGE
  • CPT options — Hans sama
  • Player pool — All in play (Less on Odoamne)
• G2
  • CPT options — Jankos, Rekless, Caps
  • Player pool — All in play (FADE Wunder)
• AST
  • CPT options — Jeskla
  • Player pool — Jeskla, Whiteknight, promiseq, Zanzarah
• S04
  • CPT options — Neon, Nuclearint
  • Player pool — Nuclearint, Neon, BrokenBlade, Kirei

LCS

On top of being the most overhyped and overrated League, we also have a weak-scoring best-of-one slate. The slate isn’t up yet as of this writing. Based off matchups, I have what I’m thinking below. More to come via Discord. 

Stack rankings

• EG
• 100T
• DIG (or GG)

I will update everyone in Discord if anything changes on my exposures and predictions. Remember to only do 3-3 or 4-2 stacks. One-offs are not viable unless you’re hedging in the team spot.