Dotabuff Fantasy Guide: Main Event Day 3
Two upper bracket and two elimination matches tomorrow and no chances of repeating teams, so once again the fantasy is going to be pretty straightforward. Follow the highest averages and the series most likely to end up in a bloodbath for the highest score.
Mid
Two excellent options for tomorrow. iG.Emo and
T1.Karl are the two highest scoring mids with a massive difference between them and the competition.
On any other day we would probably go with Karl: T1 typically have longer games and the difference in averages is pretty small. But they are playing Alliance tomorrow and given the level of play we’ve seen from T1 in their series against PSG.LGD, and the level of play we’ve seen from Alliance in their series against Beastcoast, we fully expect this to be a complete and utter stomp.
Emo is a better option, in our opinion. Invictus Gaming vs. Team Secret should be very close and very entertaining.
Cores
You really can’t go wrong with XG.Ame^^ and
Arteezy as your two choices for tomorrow. They are statistically the best cores playing tomorrow and both of them have close series they are likely to do well in.
Following the logic in our mid selection, iG.FlyFly is also an excellent choice, though his average is noticeably lower. Slot him in if you have a particularly great gold and/or if you don’t believe in EG doing well.
Don’t forget about Nightfall in this discussion either. His average is rising rapidly and who knows, maybe Virtus.Pro will be able to deal with PSG.LGD tomorrow. If you truly, truly believe it, put Nightfall in. If Virtus.Pro does win, it is going to be in an unexpected and spectacular fashion.
Supports
This has never been easier. Honestly. YapzOr and
Whitemon are non-negotiable. If you don’t have them, dust your least favorite team and craft them.
If and only if this isn’t enough you can consider Aster.Kaka. In our opinion, their series against Team Secret is the most evenly matched one, so it will probably go long, making support picks from it worth more.
Cores: Matumbaman is also a very valid option, he's very close to the other 4 in average. I honestly have no idea who to pick amongst those 5. And there is even poyoyo who's at the very least worth of consideration. In the end I went with Ame and Arteezy as well, to have a diverse lineup. Arteezy over Nightfall because I don't think VP are going to upset PSG.LGD
Mid: Nisha, Ori, NothingToSay, Abed, gpk are also valid option. It's a matter of winning 2 solid games, pretty much everyone but LIMMP is a defensible choice. I went with Emo though.
Support: YapzOr and Whitemon are top 2 by far. Other than those 2 Kaka and Dy are not bad, beyond those the abyss.
After Sumail (day 1) and Raven (day 2), I would never bet in losing team even if they average is uber high. Stick to whichever players you think will win their series (thus no nightfall for me, sorry but Ame is safer choice)
why not abed over emo? is the gap between the that large?
the gap between Emo and Abed is rather large, 3.4 points on average (before cards, with my cards it's 4.6) plus I'm more confident on IG beating Secret than I am in EG beating VG
btw, yesterday fucked me bad, sub 50 percentile and now 10ish points behind global top 100, it was fun while it lasted
Same. Fnatic underperformed at the exact same moment Spirit overperformed. Part of me is really happy with all the young, incredibly talented players from my region. Part of me wishes they paid at least a moidcum of respect to SEA veterans.
Whitemon didn't score a lot, and VG throwing in the towel after 20ish mins also fucked RTZ bad, I think at this point RTZ will score more points losing a very long game 2 and winning game 3.
Edit: nice VG victory after a 57 minutes and a game 3 for RTZ. At least he can improve over his not-even-12points game 1.
well. that last game he scored high. but he still lost
Lol that lineup fucked up pretty bad ,ig lost to secret like wtf man😡😡😡😡 totally lost any chances to get into top 10%🥺🥺🥺