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Welcome to RotoBaller's coverage of League of Legends DFS for both FanDuel and DraftKings. We are now onto the quarterfinals of Worlds and that means we finally get into the best of 5 format.
Worlds is the best time of year for League of Legends as we get to see the top teams from all the regions battle it out to see who is the best. There are plenty of great teams in this tournament and I look forward to covering the DFS slates along the way.
Today I'll be bringing you my top League of Legends advice, analysis, and picks, for the slate beginning on Saturday, October 23rd, 2021 at 8:00 AM EST. You can check me out on Twitter @nolanroth10 and follow me for more LOL content!
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- RNG vs. EDG (-145)
- DWG (-1000) vs. MAD
RNG vs. EDG
Two of the favorites to win Worlds, unfortunately, get matched up against each other in the quarterfinals. The majority of the picks I've seen have EDG winning the series. I am going to take RNG and hope for lower ownership as I can see RNG winning, they are MSI champions after all. Not to mention from a DFS perspective RNG led the group stage with 131 kills in just 7 games so we know they are going to put up points.
RNG did 2-0 sweep them during the summer split and win both of their series in the spring. Both teams' average game time was over 30 minutes with RNG having the longer games at 37 minutes per game. EDG likes to play through the bot side, whereas RNG plays through top so it will be interesting to see which side can generate the advantage. Xiahou in the top lane has the most favorable matchup of the series in my opinion but Scout up against Cryin is quite the gap as well. Cryin is a completely different player when playing roaming champions like his signature Twisted Fate and looks much worse when forced to play more lane-focused champions.
Cryin played TF in 5 of the 7 games with an 80% win rate. Look for EDG to ban TF and force Cryin on one of his weaker champions. Xiahou has such a wide champion pool in the top lane that it is nearly impossible for him to not find a winning lane matchup as we saw with him breaking out the Syndra top.
Top plays from RNG: Xiahou, Gala, Wei, Ming
Top plays from EDG: Scout, Viper, Meiko
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DWG vs. MAD
DWG was the only team to go 6-0 in the group stage and look to be the favourites to take home the championship at this time. Showmaker is probably the best player in the tournament and has racked up a KDA of 14.2 through the group stage. All of DWG has looked great so far with each individual laner having a positive gold difference through 10 minutes.
DWG is averaging 17 kills per game to only 8 deaths compared to 15.6 kills and 16.8 deaths for the Mad Lions. MAD is a team that will fight right up until the last minute so we should see plenty of kills throughout this series. These two teams did face off in the semi-finals of MSI where DWG defeated MAD 3-2. MAD had one of the highest average game times during groups at 37.9 minutes compared to 34.3 for DWG which was the middle of the pack.
Overall DWG is just a better team and with the way they have been playing, I don't think there is much hope for MAD to come out of this series with a win.
Top plays from DWG: Showmaker, Khan, Canyon, Team
Top plays from MAD: Humanoid, Kaiser, Carzzy
Final Thoughts
RNG as the main stack should not be very popular as people will look to use DWG or EDG, so using a 4 man RNG lineup is good leverage as they should put up plenty of kills if they win the series. The DWG/MAD series could be similar to what we saw today with T1 and HLE in terms of one team just being overmatched however the big difference is we should see a much higher kill total in the games. Showmaker and Khan are my captain choices for DWG.
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