League of Legends Betting Guide
Maksym YushytsynLoL takes a significant place in esports activity. It is still the most popular arena for multiplayer battles and attracts an international community of players by hosting LoL esports competitions with huge prize pools. This game presents tvt mode, allowing each member control a character, developing its abilities, and completing game objective. All team members share the same goal – to destroy enemy team’s base called Nexus.
LoL can also been played in pvp mode.
Main regions of LoL popularity are Northern America and Europe. However, Asia and Europe also become the target market for the game.
Game basics
League of Legends, inspired by DotA 2, has recently became #1 arena presented at egame championships and events. It has easier rules and gameplay than DotA 2, and inexperienced players can start to play it easily (mainly, because there are not such many different characters with various skills). To become a successful LoL gambler, learn all game standard and to be well-aware of champion’s skills and abilities. The same is required for success in League of Legends world championship betting.
Like DotA 2 game, LoL also has professional teams who compete in international competitions, and are famous in gaming circles.
Today the number of LoL players has exceeded 70 million players monthly. Due to free access to the services, players have a possibility to try out all game functions and become involved in game competitions. However, this game also has some chargeable content (some of game purchases can be made only for real money). These chargeable content is the main revenue source for LoL game.
Today LoL game has three actual modes (the Crystal Scar mode has been removed recently). First step is to select a player. A summoner (player) selects a champion (hero) to control him. Each hero has its own skills and abilities, and a player needs to control it effectively and know its abilities in different game situations.
Types of Bets
With raising number of tournaments and League of Legends betting sites, the number of bettors is also rising. There are various platforms which provide possibility to place bets. League of Legends betting system is quite various, and this gives more opportunities for participants.
LoL allows to gamble on match outcome. Unlike other esport competitions, this game does not offer draw bets (they are generally placed to minimize the odds).
To make betting on League of Legends process clear, let us analyze situation on the market. Two teams participate in match. They have the same level of playing, though team A has huge experience in international championship and competitive gaming. Team A has 1.8 odds, but Team B which has less experience in worldwide championships has 1.91 odds. Odds for other teams which had competitions at the same day were even lower – Team C received 1.04 odds.
The winnings regularly depend on the pool of tournament you participate into. For example, bets on single events never bring huge winnings, while when you gamble on whole series of events outcome, you get the chance to hit rather impressive reward. Bigger LoL events offer wider variety of bets. Some bookmakers allow to place additional bets on the result of certain team (team score, or how far this team advances in an event). Everything depends upon League of Legends betting site you choose.
Additional bets regularly have shorter odds, than the main stake on a winner. However, it can be a good chance to win cash.
Bets and Strategies
To make profits in LoL betting, a bettor needs to be competent in game rules and understand some of the expected values of bets. Understanding of League of Legends bet strategies and probabilities gives advantage to the gambler, so that he can choose not only the most promising team, but also the best competition with odds favoring a bettor. There are some manuals and tutorials on successful gambling in sports, and some advices can be used for esports. Those multimethodical books with strategies of managing your bank can be pretty useful both for new gamblers, and for experienced real money gamblers.
The important thing to remember about betting League of Legends principles, is handicapping. In classic sports event handicapping is used in the games where skill of individuals is important (for example, baseball), while it almost never is used in games where team skill has bigger importance. LoL championships are based on team contests, so handicapping is not used here. It creates better space for the bettors: while game results are unpredictable for the bookmakers, any bettor can win his bet especially when the match results can easily be guessed.
LoL gambling process requires preparation and some investigations to become a rewarding deal. First, check teams’ histories of playing. If a team has shown good results, has low rate of defeats, or some rewards for participation in championships, it has better chances to succeed in a match. Besides, if both teams have almost equal statistics, you need to be precise with your investigation. A good decision is to check history of their matches. If team A has always defeated team B, the odds speak that this time team A wins again. However, comparing of game winning and defeating rate is not the best strategy for a professional esports gambler.
Professional esports betting League of Legends strategy includes investigation style of teams, style of certain members, their preferences in choice of champions, etc. If you have been playing LoL for some time, you are probably able to determine some strategies of the teams. Watch as much matches as possible, check teams’ streams to understand how they are acting in different situation, and discover odds they have in any competitions.
Another thing you need to check is the style the team chooses to play. In fact, we can differentiate two basic LoL playing styles – aggressive and solid. Some players believe that aggressive players always win in LoL competitions. In fact, aggressive playing is good against another team with aggressive style, but can cause defeated when played against teams which prefer methodical and solid style. Remember about that while creating your own strategy to bet League of Legends.
However, always check team history and rewards, the style of playing can never tell you actual skill of the team, unless you check their achievements.
Biggest events
LoL has several serious competitions including annual and regular seasonal events. The LoL main event – World Championship – is held in October every year. It gathers leading world teams together and they dream of winning the tournament with more than 2 million dollars as an award.
Also among major LoL tournaments, there can be (season 2018-2019):
- Mid-Season Invitational (MSI 2019)
- KeSPA Cup 2018
- All-Star 2018.