(-105) Rogue Warriors v Oh My God! (-125)

(+190) ThunderTalk Gaming v Bilibili Gaming (-260)

(+160) Invictus Gaming v TOP Esports (-260)

(-300) DRX v Fredit BRION (+220)

(+130) Hanwha Life Esports v Gen.G (-170)
 

Almost nothing went according to plan Saturday morning but we saw some absolutely amazing games. You have five games to choose from on this slate and some of these games should be explosive with tons of kills. Most of which should be the battle of the LPL kings in Invictus Gaming and TOP Esports who are near the top of the league in team kills! Let’s get after it!  

Game #1: Rogue Warriors v Oh My God!

Cann’s Pick: Rogue Warriors

Game #2: ThunderTalk Gaming v Bilibili Gaming

Cann’s Pick: Bilibili Gaming

Game #3: Invictus Gaming v TOP Esports

Cann’s Pick: TOP Esports

Game #4: DRX v Fredit BRION

Cann’s Pick: DRX

Game #5: Hanwha Life Esports v Gen.G

Cann’s Pick: Hanwha Life Esports

 

Captain

Favorite: JackeyLove (TES: $12,000) JackeyLove and TES continue their climb up to the top of the standings in the LPL. He has 118 kills and is going to make life miserable for the bot lane of IG. He has 35.2% kill share percentage and has only died 44 times. This is really expensive so you’ll need to be riskier with other picks but in what should be the bloodiest match of the day, you should get paid here.  

Value Pick: Chovy (HLE: $9,600)

Top Lane

Favorite: Biubiu (BLG: $7,000) With about 20 kill (68) lead on his opponent (Chelizi), Biubiu is an exciting top laner to watch play. He also 5th amongst top laners in the LPL with assists (135) and a kill share percentage of 22% which is highest among starting top laners. He is very death prone but with the lack of attention given to the top lane by TT, this seems like a safe bet here. 

Value Pick: TheShy (IG: $5,400) 

Jungle

Favorite: Pyosik (DRX: $7,000) In his last series Pyosik averaged 91 FPPG with 11 kills over 3 games against KT Rolster. UmTi is a comparable jungler to KT’s Blank and Pyosik has more kills than both of them with a total of 82. I love Pyosik’s team first blood kill participation rate of 40% and has a total team kill participation of 68.9%. He will be living mid trying to get SOLKA through laning phase which should turn into some consistent opportunities for kills in this matchup.   

Value Pick: Xiaopeng (TT: $5,800) 

Mid Lane

Favorite: Knight (TES: $7,600) I don’t think I normally bet against Rookie, but I also wouldn’t bet against TES right now. Knight is averaging 76.2 FPPG and dropped 84 points in their last series. He is averaging 8.9 kills per game (up from the early part of the split) and it doesn’t really feel like many teams would want to see them in a best of five. Rookie is good but JackeyLove is going to force XUN to go bottom to bail out IG so Knight will have his way in the mid lane. 

Value Pick: Bdd (GEN: $6,600)   

ADC

Favorite: BAO (DRX: $7,800) With 143 kills, BAO has the second most kills among all LCK bot laners and is ahead of Hena by a wide margin (98 kills). He has the second highest kill share percentage among bot laners with 38.6% and we have seen Fredit be more and more scrappy in recent series so look for BAO to have opportunities to scrap early and often in this one. 

Value Pick: Ruler (GEN: $7,000) 

Support

Favorite: Zhuo (TES: $5,800) Is Zhuo a legit pick for captain? I actually think that is a possibility. He scored 77 points in the last series and is averaging almost 60 points per game. That usually happens when you support for JackeyLove and can farm your assists (193) off of his production. I love his first blood kill rate (32%) because it means that there is a significant focus for TES in his lane. Look for lots of blood and points in this matchup.  

Value Pick: Vsta (HLE: $4,600) 

Team

Favorite: DRX ($5,800) This is probably the safest pick here. BRO has had a good stretch over the last few games but don’t buy in too early. They beat T1 2-0 who are absolute shams and took Gen.G to three  matches and they have had some serious issues as of late. DRX hasn’t looked great but player to player, they have significant upgrades in almost every position as well as leads in almost all neutral objective measurements.    

Value Pick: Invictus Gaming ($4,600) 

 

Cann’s Example Lineup

Captain (x1.5): Chovy ($9,600)

     Alternate: Forge ($10,200)

Top: Biubiu ($7,000)

Jungle: Pyosiki ($7,000)

     Alternate: Clid ($6,400)

Mid: Knight ($7,600)

ADC: JackeyLove ($8,000)

     Alternate: BAO ($7,800)

Support: Zhuo ($5,800)

Team: Hanwha Life Esports ($4,400)