Core plays and lineup construction for LoL (7/4)

Sunday’s another busy day of esports action. There’s a five-game, best-of-three LPL/LCK slate at 3 a.m. ET, and then two best-of-one slates — a CBLOL at 11 a.m. and 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 important 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 BLG, RNG/SN, and EDG.

Let’s start off and say V5 is the worst team in the LPL. Lock in BLG with no reservations. They are viable in two- and four-man stacks.

GEN and DWG has slow pace written all over it, but it’s finally time to hop off DWG. Focus on GEN two- and four-man stacks, but don’t force it. I’m sort of off this match with how slow GEN has been playing. DWG does feed.

NS and HLE has sneaky upside and I like four-man stacks from this match. HLE has the most deaths per loss and are feeding in losses. My thing I’m predicting an HLE win, but I’ll be hedging. Two- and four-man stacks with preference to four-man.

EDG plays too slow to rock four-man stacks, but TES feeds. I think this will be bloody and I’ll have a ton of EDG two- and four-man stacks while working a few TES hedges.

Lastly, RNG and SN is the juiciest of matches. Two top teams underperforming and struggling on all cylinders. I eventually think they turn it around. RNG is my preference, but you want four-man stacks from this match.

In short, give me BLG, EDG, RNG in four-man stacks and two-man stacks work also. I’ll have some GEN sprinkled in and HLE is my favorite dog. I’ll have a ton of SN too.

My focus is JNG Captain followed by MID Captain. In all builds, try to correlate your ADC and SUP together. 

CBLOL/LCS

We’re still waiting on this slate to drop. I’ll update everyone on Discord when it does and 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.