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GAMES (EDT)
- Tuesday, 4:00 p.m: FlyQuest (FLY) vs. Golden Guardians (GG)
- Wednesday, 4:00 p.m: 100 Thieves (100) vs. Team SoloMid (TSM)
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FLY (10-10) vs. GG (9-10)
We kick off the slate with the weaker of the two matchups. Both teams are very inconsistent, with stats that don't make a ton of sense all the way around. Golden Guardians are one of three teams in the league with a positive gold differential at 15 minutes, but they have the worst dragon control rate, suggesting that they have good laners but don't max out on objective control early in games. On the flip side, FlyQuest have the second-worst gold differential at 15 minutes, with mid level dragon control. It kind of feels like neither team has a real clear idea how they want to play the game. With that said, FlyQuest are in shambles, rotating their top laner game to game and struggling with their bottom lane. For them to be priced as the most expensive options on the slate is strange to me, and I just can't solicit playing them at these prices. Like we said last time, if FLY are going to win, it's going to be on the back of PowerOfEvil, who accounts for nearly 36 percent of the team's damage.
On the Golden Guardians side, I truly believe FBI is an up and coming player in the LCS and
GAMES (EDT)
- Tuesday, 4:00 p.m: FlyQuest (FLY) vs. Golden Guardians (GG)
- Wednesday, 4:00 p.m: 100 Thieves (100) vs. Team SoloMid (TSM)
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FLY (10-10) vs. GG (9-10)
We kick off the slate with the weaker of the two matchups. Both teams are very inconsistent, with stats that don't make a ton of sense all the way around. Golden Guardians are one of three teams in the league with a positive gold differential at 15 minutes, but they have the worst dragon control rate, suggesting that they have good laners but don't max out on objective control early in games. On the flip side, FlyQuest have the second-worst gold differential at 15 minutes, with mid level dragon control. It kind of feels like neither team has a real clear idea how they want to play the game. With that said, FlyQuest are in shambles, rotating their top laner game to game and struggling with their bottom lane. For them to be priced as the most expensive options on the slate is strange to me, and I just can't solicit playing them at these prices. Like we said last time, if FLY are going to win, it's going to be on the back of PowerOfEvil, who accounts for nearly 36 percent of the team's damage.
On the Golden Guardians side, I truly believe FBI is an up and coming player in the LCS and has looked much better once the team swapped in Huhi as his support. FBI accounts for just under one third of GG's damage share, but his kill participation has been a little lower than we like to see. Closer and Huhi lead the team in kill participation, while Hauntzer and Golden Glue sit just behind FBI's 43 kills, with 42 and 40, respectively. I like Golden Guardians here, especially because you can fit either side of the next matchup with them easily.
Predicition: GG 3-1
FLY Players to Target: PowerOfEvil ($7,800)
GG Players to Target: Hauntzer ($5,400), Closer ($6,000), FBI ($7,200), Huhi ($4,600), GG Team ($4,600)
100 (11-10) vs. TSM (9-9)
This series should be very close, so push aside the last memory of 100 Thieves being destroyed by Cloud9 on the weekend. Cloud9 are a totally different animal to anyone else in the league this year, and 100 Thieves match up very well with TSM. TSM also matchup very well with 100 Thieves, as both teams play through their solo laners with top laners who can carry games. I think that this is a coin-flip series, so both sides are in play depending on who you think is going to win. I give a slight advantage to TSM, as I think Broken Blade can negate Ssumday much like Licorice did on the weekend, allowing Bjergsen and Dardoch to pick on Ryoma and Meteos in the mid-jungle 2v2. Both bot lanes play the weak side well and look to carry in team fights, and while it feels like Kobbe has been a disappointment in his first season in North America, he still leads TSM with 28 percent of their damage share. There's reason to believe this will be the slower of the two series, but in their last meeting these teams combined for an explosive 37 combined kills.
Prediction: TSM 3-1
TSM Players to Target: Broken Blade ($5,800), Bjergsen ($7,200), Kobbe ($7,600), BioFrost ($5,000), TSM Team ($4,800)
100 Players to Target: Ssumday ($6,00 Ryoma ($7,400), Cody Sun ($7,800), 100 Team ($5,200)
