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GPP Targets:
Today we will be looking into the first slate of the split for the LPL on 6/6/2020 5 am EST. Some of you may already know me. I am Naldo, aka champagneravens in discord, here to provide as much light about this slate as possible, so we can all have a profitable day together as a family. Below I will provide my top targets for the day, favorite captains for each team in case you decide to hedge, as well as projected lineups to make your building of a line a lot easier.
Tournament Format:
- Matches are best of 3.
- Single Round Robin.
- Top teams to target in GPP:
- Victory 5 (V5) (+150) vs Dominus Esports (DMO) (-205):
Starting Rosters:
V5: (TOP) BiuBiu, (JNG) WeiWei, (MID) Mole, (ADC) SamD, (SUP) Ppgod.
Dominus Esports: (TOP) Natural, (JNG) Xiaopeng, (MID) Twilla, (ADC) Helper, (SUP) Mitsuki.
You are probably asking yourself, “He is not really about to play V5, right?” I am here to tell you, my friends, that you guessed right. I am actually a fan of the moves V5 made past few days/weeks to improve their roster. They really had nothing to lose as they were the worst team last split in the regular season. It only made sense that they decided to rebuild the entire team. At this point, they figured that any changes would only be for the better, and I think so too. They picked up the likes of BiuBiu, and WeiWei, who arent above average players but are a significant change to what they were. The addition to a new ADC in SamD should give the team a new fresh look as I thought y4 was not a very good contributor to the team before. I think the most significant signing was of Ppgod, who I think is a decent Support player. And his presence itself should help in the long run.
DMO also made some key changes, but in my opinion, the changes were not necessary. Regardless of the reason, they did add a new ADC to their roster and a new Support player to compliment his game. To close out this matchup, I think its a 50/50 game that could go either way. I predict DMO ownership will be pretty high. Both teams are basically brand new, and the people will follow the Vegas line here. I will note that the line has actually moved towards V5’s favor throughout the day. I will take the V5 shot here and hope it pays off. Either way, I will always suggest you do cover yourself with a hedge line in these types of games.
Players to Captain (V5 stack): (ADC) SamD.
Players to Captain (DMO stack): (ADC) Helper, (MID) Twilla.
Pick to win: V5
Royal Never Give Up (-160) vs. Oh My God(+120):
Starting Rosters:
RNG: (TOP) New, (JNG) XLB, (MID) Xiaohu, (ADC) Betty ,(SUP) Ming.
OMG: (TOP) Aliez, (JNG) H4acker, (MID) icon, (ADC) Smlz ,(SUP) Cold.
Going to be keeping it short and simple here. I am nearly full exposure to RNG. Overall, they are the better-rounded team, especially with the addition of New in the Top lane. It is not a huge improvement but still an improvement. They also brought back Cryin, but kept him as a backup. This makes me worry for Xiaohu if he does not perform up to par in the first game, he could be benched. Still, I think this team, with this starting lineup, is good enough to beat OMG. OMG had a decent run, up until the last few games of the spring split in the regular season. They finished horribly, 1-8 in the last nine games of the season. OMG has never been a sexy team to use even when they are huge favorites. They play a very slow game, majorly focused on objectives and avoiding team fights until they are ready to start one. And even when they do win, their production is not worth having on a slate bigger than two games. Personally, think RNG steps on the gas here and attempts to get an early lead on OMG and take it home in a sweep without the need to sub in Cryin.
Pick to win: RNG
Players to Captain (RNG stack): (ADC) Betty, (MID) Xiaohu (Risk involved)
Players to Captain (OMG stack): [Not enough upside, no interest for any OMG captain)
Slate Notes:
I will be building my lines mostly around an RNG four-man stack and filling in with V5 the other spaces. I will rotate around to having some V5 four-man stacks too, as OMG tends to not feed a lot of kills in some games. Out of ten lines, I would say I will have about 70% RNG (The rest would be OMG) exposure and around 50% V5 splitting with DMO. If you are playing cash games, I suggest you go RNG/DMO in your builds. In a two-game slate, I normally do not recommend playing cash. Instead, just hedge in gpp. With that said, let us crush this slate as a team. WIN DAILY ALL DAY! You can always find me in discord at @champagnravens and ask me any question about the slate, and I will 100% be there to help out.
