Core plays and lineup construction for LoL (8/8)

There’s a five-game slate for League of Legends on Saturday, beginning at 3:00 am ET.

I’ll also list my stack ranking and player pool for the LEC and LCS slates later on during the day.  I’m here to break down my top DFS builds, as well as my strategy around what I’m doing for this slate. The building itself is especially important. If you haven’t had a chance, please, please read up on the Esports 101 article.

One thing I always want to do is stress the importance of #hedgelife. Please dive into this, as it is very important to my success in Esports.

As previously mentioned, my focus for this article is around my plan for this slate. I have said it already, 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 only 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 hit often. Make sure to follow my Twitter for updates on starting lineups and any changes that I will be making as I research later on throughout the day.

Lastly, I want to touch on contest selection. Contest selection is 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 wanted to touch on was “the process.” I’ve mentioned this quite a few times, but I thought I’d break it down what the process is.

• Contest selection — If you don’t follow me on Twitter, please make sure you do. I’ve been tweeting my favorite contests for people to focus on every night. Find a way to do 10 lineups and look for contests with under 500 people.
• #HedgeLife — I spoke about 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. That 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. I highly recommend reading what I wrote above. It seems like a lot, but it’s important to see what has made me successful in Esports. There is a process and it works.

Here are my stack rankings and plans for this slate:

• EDG
  LNG
  DWG
  TES
  DRX – Two-man stacks ONLY
  DMO
  WE
  ES

I’m doing 25 lineups and hedging a bunch today. My lean is focusing on EDG, as they are facing ES, who allow the most DraftKings points to opposing teams. A four-man stack for EDG could be the optimal build. For LNG and DMO, you have two bottom barrel teams facing off with an LNG team who is playing a lot better. They have won two in a row, dominating each one. DMO is playing better as of late too, but they haven't won their last five matches and are sitting dead last in the LPL. DWG and TES are always in play, but TES has struggled as of late. I’ll have some shares of WE because of this. 

• EDG

CPT Options – Scout, Hope.

Player Pool – All are in play.

• LNG

CPT Options – Maple, Light.

Player Pool – All are in play

• DWG

CPT Options –  Showmaker.

Player Pool – All are in play.

• TES

  • Player Pool – All are in play except Karsa.

  • If you can fit it, use Knight at captain.

• DMO

CPT Options – Twila, Xubin.

Player Pool – All are in play.

• WE

CPT options – Jiumeng.

Player Pool  – Jiumeng, Beishang.

• ES

Player Pool  – All in play

• DRX

  • Player Pool – Chovy, Doran, Pyosik.

LEC/LCS

You just can’t trust G2 and FNC to be optimal anymore. Again, this is best of one, and I’m not going to dive deep into these two different slates. Instead, I’ll focus on my targets and what I’m doing. I recommend you save your bankroll and try to wait till playoffs once this becomes best of three and best of five. I’m listing my favorite stacks for these slates. You can reach out to me on Discord if you want to discuss lineup strategy. Again, I’m running 2-3 lineups and these are the only stacks I’m using.

LEC

• S04
• SK
• MAD

LCS

• FLY
• EG
• 100
• TL