Valorant DFS plays for May 27

We have another slate for Valorant on DraftKings for Thursday, a three-gamer starting at 11 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 Valorant 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. 

Valorant — Slate One

We kick off the slate with Version1 versus NUTURN. Now Version1 just came off a huge win against Team Liquid and have only lost one in their past five. For NUTURN, they are rolling with nine wins in their past 10 series with eight sweeps. This should be a fun one. We can assume Blind and Icebox will be removed the map pool as each team has their struggles. For the rest of the maps, these two teams are different only by 1-2%. NUTURN has better success on just Ascent when it comes to attacking but holds a better defense rate on two of the three. Now, they do come from opposite regions and V1 facings the much better teams with higher success rate so I will be leaning more V1 over NUTURN. 

For the second series, we get the X10 versus fnatic. One thing that I love about X10 is that they are described as kids hyped up on Mountain Dew and they play just like that. They did lose to Team Viking Tuesday but had a dominating win versus the Crazy Racoons. For fnatic, they have had a rough time with two losses in their past five series. I will honestly be back on stacking X10 as they are the better team with only four losses in 2021. Icebox and possibly Split will be removed but X10 has high win-rates all around that I don’t think they’ll have an issue. Also, Patiphan will be another lock for me. 

In the last series of the slate, we get Team Liquid versus KRU. We loved KRU versus Sharks but this is a whole different series for them. Team Liquid is a much better formed team overall and should be able to do work easily versus their opponents. TL is also coming off of a hard-fought series versus V1 and will be looking to get back on track. Haven and Split will most likely be the two maps banned as TL has a much lower win-rate on Split and will want to keep the playing fields even. I will be heavier on TL over KRU but it’s hard not to have a few KRU lineups as insurance.

Stack rankings

• Version1
• Team Liquid
• X10
• fnatic
• KRU

Player pool

Version1

• CPT options — Zellsis, penny
• Player pool — Vanity, effys (Low)

NUTURN

• CPT options — Lakia, allow
• Player pool — peri, suggest, solo (That order)

X10

• CPT options — Patiphan
• Player pool — Sushiboys, Scary, fox

fnatic

• CPT options — Derke
• Player pool — doma, boaster

Team Liquid

• CPT options — ScreaM, Kryptix
• Player pool — L1NK, Jamppi (Low)

KRU

• CPT options — delz1k, bnj
• Player pool — Manzino, NagZ

Favorite plays on the slate

• Patiphan — The man is just too good. 
• Lakia – Very consistent and hard carry for NURTUN
• Derke – If stacking fnatic, he is the main piece and must be involved in every stack
• Zellsis – Consistent for V1 and penny is close behind him.
• ScreaM – I still like ScreaM as the main priority of TL but you could even focus on Kryptix
• Delz1k – I may be the only one that likes delz1k over all of KRU, but he’s very consistent and is a safe play for a KRU stack

I will update everyone in Discord if anything changes on my exposures and predictions. Remember to only do 3-3, 3-2-1 or 2-2-2 stacks.