Dotabuff Fantasy Guide: Day 2
With the first day behind us, we now have a little bit more to go on when selecting our roster for Day 2. Once again, the selection is going to be from teams that play three series tomorrow and once again we are going to concentrate on heavy tournament favorites for core roles, but select statistically best performing supports, regardless of team standing.
Mid
Elephant, Vici Gaming, Fnatic and Team Secret play three series tomorrow, with Vici Gaming facing Elephant in the opening series of the day. Considering Team Secret plays PSG.LGD tomorrow morning and Fnatic are playing them midday, it is perhaps advised to pick from AR.Ori and
AR.Somnus.
Jankowski is a great scorer, as is
ChYuaN, but the mid position is extremely reliant on overall team performance.
Between the two remaining options, we feel like Elephant is the safer bet. They looked a lot more convincing in their games against Beastcoast, compared to how Vici Gaming looked in their series against Fnatic.
Supports
Fnatic looks a lot stronger than we assumed from their recent performance. As such, their support, Fnatic.Dj, is absolutely worth slotting in for tomorrow. He is among the top earners in the International history and it doesn’t look like he’s ready to give up on his position quite yet.
For similar reasons we might make an argument in favor of YapzOr, who has a strong the International fantasy legacy. But most of his fantasy points come from the fact that he plays incredibly greedy and often transitions into an extra core for his team, resulting in higher KDA and general fantasy scoring. And this plan might not work, if we consider Team Secret is playing versus PSG.LGD and Elephant tomorrow. So if you doubt
YapzOr,
LoA,
XG.Dy and
KingJungles are your
statistically good position five choices. We are going with Dy, since he is TI9 highest fantasy earner after all.
Cores
Erika and
XG.Paparazi灬 are group B top earning cores. The only problem is they are playing against each other tomorrow, which makes slotting both of them slightly counterintuitive.
That said, both teams ended up with 1-1-0 score yesterday and poyoyo did score considerably more. The points mostly depend on whether you believe VG or Elephnat will take the series. We will leave it for you to decide, while we are picking Eurus.
Our second pick is going to be a player who is yet to start shining as brightly as he used to, but who we still fully believe in. Fnatic.Raven was among the top earners in TI7 when fantasy Dota was first introduced and when cores included mids as well, who typically performed much better. Moreover, he did it while losing a lot of games as well, so it doesn’t matter that they play PSG.LGD tomorrow, he is still going to deliver.
wow, first
Is there any place to check fantasy scores and averages?
poyoyo isn't facing PSG.LGD tomorrow, VG and PSG.LGD match up is on day 3.
poyoyo is facing ELEPHANTS, Quincy, Spirit while Eurus is facing VG, Spirit, Secret.
so they face each other, both face Spirit, but poyoyo got the advantage of facing Quincy while Eurus faces Secret.
the only reason to slot Eurus over poyoyo is if you believe Elephants are gonna stomp VG.
The same goes for Somnus over Ori as mid.
elephant + SG tomorrow! 2 cores GOLD card SG and 1 silver 1 gold Elephant! SUP by PSG with 1 gold too! ez ez 485 first day
@Antani: Thanks, fixed. The point still stands and given how Secret played vs. Beastcoast yesterday, perhaps they are an easier opponent compared to QC
@KawaiiSocks well, I'd like to say I'm not bragging but honestly I am :D, seems like my decision to play poyoyo and Ori over Eurus and Somnus is paying off for now
Edit: on the other hand, I went with DJ and Yapzor as supports to hedge having already 2 VG players and that wasn't as smart in hindsight
Yeah, I might have overestimated elephant tbh. My logic was VG and Elephant both 1-1 Fnatic, but VG won SG, who are a bit of an underdog, while Elephant won 2-0 vs. Beastcoast, who crushed Secret 2-0. So in my head, based on preliminary feeling about the team standings, Elephant were way above VG. At least DJ, Raven and Dy are doing really well)
In the end looks like playing against Secret was a big advantage fantasy wise for Elephants, not because Secret was an easy matchup but because of super long games.
Was thinking the same. Might reconsider my reasoninig for main stage fantasy. Though there it is mostly about guessing which team plays 2xBo3 on the day and not gets eliminated =/
That's an issue only on the 15th, 16th and 17th. ON 12th 13th and 14th no team can ever play two series.
Anyway, your lineup went: Raven (1) - Eurus (6) - Somnus (3) - DJ (2) . Dy (3)
Mine went: Raven (1) - poyoyo (2) - Ori (1) - Yapzor (1) - DJ (2), for the first time since I play fantasy dota I got the perfect lineup in a day