This article is part of our DraftKings League of Legends series.
GAMES (EDT)
- 12:00 p.m: FC Schalke 04 vs. Rogue
- 12:50 p.m: SK Gaming vs. exceL eSports
- 1:40 p.m: Origen vs. Mad Lions
- 2:30 p.m: Fnatic vs. Team Vitality
- 3:20 p.m: Misfits vs. G2 eSports
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S04 (5-12) vs. Rogue (9-8)
Saturday is the last day of the LEC regular season, so most of these writeups are going to be short unless there are playoff implications. Rogue let us down so hard against SK, and that hurts their playoff seeding even though xL can't catch up to them anymore. I don't get what they were trying to draft during the game, as they basically got ran by SK even though they had some kills, but they were significantly down in gold. S04 went 2-0 last week and Friday they matched G2 and had a chance to win if they just won certain fights and rotated accordingly. I am going to lean S04 here just because Abbedagge, Odo and Innax are still good players, and this is a team willing to come out and play spoiler to teams that bust them up early in the season.
Prediction: S04 Win
Bets: S04 ML (+175)
S04 Players to Target: Odoamne (TOP $5,800), Abbedagge (MID $7,000), Innax (ADC $7,200)
SK (3-14) vs. exceL (7-10)
xL is officially out of playoffs, and this is going to be a fiesta game. xL looked horrible the last few games and against OG it
GAMES (EDT)
- 12:00 p.m: FC Schalke 04 vs. Rogue
- 12:50 p.m: SK Gaming vs. exceL eSports
- 1:40 p.m: Origen vs. Mad Lions
- 2:30 p.m: Fnatic vs. Team Vitality
- 3:20 p.m: Misfits vs. G2 eSports
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S04 (5-12) vs. Rogue (9-8)
Saturday is the last day of the LEC regular season, so most of these writeups are going to be short unless there are playoff implications. Rogue let us down so hard against SK, and that hurts their playoff seeding even though xL can't catch up to them anymore. I don't get what they were trying to draft during the game, as they basically got ran by SK even though they had some kills, but they were significantly down in gold. S04 went 2-0 last week and Friday they matched G2 and had a chance to win if they just won certain fights and rotated accordingly. I am going to lean S04 here just because Abbedagge, Odo and Innax are still good players, and this is a team willing to come out and play spoiler to teams that bust them up early in the season.
Prediction: S04 Win
Bets: S04 ML (+175)
S04 Players to Target: Odoamne (TOP $5,800), Abbedagge (MID $7,000), Innax (ADC $7,200)
SK (3-14) vs. exceL (7-10)
xL is officially out of playoffs, and this is going to be a fiesta game. xL looked horrible the last few games and against OG it seems like they had just given up playing this split. SK, on the other hand, seems like they are continuing to try since most of them are playing for their jobs next split. xL are the better team by far, but I think after the loss they won't have any motivation to play Saturday.
Prediction: SK Win
Bets: SK ML (+195)
SK Players to Target: Sacre (TOP $4,800), Jenax (MID $6,200), Crownshot (ADC $6,600), LIMIT (SUP $3,800)
MAD (10-7) vs. OG (13-4)
MAD just lost to FNC and are tied with Misfits once again to see who breaks the tie breaker. OG came over a convincing win against xL, and they will still be taking this game seriously just in case fnatic loses so they can take the no. 2 spot. This is a stay-away game for me because both teams cant; afford to lose and I can see it being a steady scaling game with a lot of macro play.
Prediction: OG WIN
Bets: None
OG Players to Target: Upset (ADC $7,600), Destiny (SUP $5,200), Origin (Team $5,200)
FNC (13-4) vs. Vitality (1-16)
Vitality lost a very close game against misfits and FNC just dismantled MAD, who a lot of people thought were going to be close. This spot is a DFS gold mine as well because Vitality just doesn't care anymore and the players on Fnatic are too good to lose to a bottom team. I do think Fnatic will troll their draft, but their players are top tier in the league and this is a spot I'm looking at to target.
Prediction: FNC Win
Bets: None
Fnatic Players to Target: Bwipo (TOP $6,800), Nemsis (MID $7,400), Rekkles (ADC $8,600), Hylissang (SUP $5,800)
G2 (14-3) vs. Misfits (10-7)
Misfits are going to do whatever they can to steal this win against G2, as this will impact their final seeding in the playoffs. The only way I can see Misfits winning is if G2 decides to run the worst draft ever or they swap roles because we are seeing a decline in early Misfits. Misfits early in the split were crushing teams, and it seems like they have been figured out and it showed against Vitality on Friday. Meanwhile, G2 won't care, and we will see a classic, weird draft by G2 to just have fun at the end of the year. If you haven't watched any G2 games over the past few years, they will always play whatever they want for their final game. I believe even with their weird drafting they are just so talented, and this is why they are probably the third best team in the world.
Prediction: G2
Bets: None
G2 players to Target: Jankos (JNG $7,600), Perkz (MID $8,200), Caps (ADC $8,400), MikyX (SUP $6,400)
STACKS TO CONSIDER
- Cash: S04/G2, S04/FNC, G2/FNC
- GPP: SK/G2, SK/FNC
- My Stacks: SK/G2, SK/FNC
