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Introduction
Hello and welcome to LEC Season Finals! We're back for one final round of European competitive League of Legends as we're nearing the 2023 World Championship. As usual you can join the Fantasy Tournament at E-Go to enjoy the competition in even more ways and maybe even pick up some prizes!
If your looking for information about the Fantasy Tournament, tips on which players to pick etc, or just to get to know LoL esports and what the format of LEC Season Finals looks like, we've got you covered!
Intro To The Fantasy Tournament
If you participated in any of our previous Fantasy Tournaments (Worlds 2022, MSI 2023, LEC Winter, Spring & Summer) you know how it works. If not, here's a quick breakdown of MOBAFire's EMEA Fantasy Tournament:
You will create a team of pro players from different teams playing in the LEC this year. You will then earn points based on the real world performance of the players you've chosen. Put together the best team you can and see how many points you can earn while you're enjoying the LEC. Some frequently asked questions and our answers for you...:
That’s something that this article should hopefully help you with! Essentially, you’re meant to pick players that you think are going to do well in the LEC Season Finals. You earn points when the player you’ve chosen has gotten a kill, an assist, has killed a minion, and you lose points when the player has died. Additionally, you’ll earn points when the player’s team destroys a turret, kills the Dragon or Baron Nashor, achieves First Blood, and, naturally, when the team wins a game.
Sounds tempting to just pick up every player from the historically most dominating team, right? Well, there are two restrictions to keep in mind:
💰 What are the prizes?
🏁 How do I get started?
To curate your team, head on over to this link!
🏁 More info?
Check here for a breakdown of how points are calculated, how different tournament phases work, and what captains and sell tokens are.
Intro To The Season Finals Format
The majority of the LEC season, the 3 splits of Winter, Spring and Summer have wrapped up. The Season Finals are the culmination of a whole year of LEC competition. Our 6 best performing teams throughout the year will participate in a bracket of Bo5s for chance to become the LEC Grand Champion. That's not all, since the 2023 World Championship (or Worlds in short) is right around the corner. Worlds qualification is all decided during Season Finals as well. Every series counts!
So who qualified? First of all, the winners of each split, G2 (Winter & Summer) and MAD Lions (Spring), have automatically qualified for Season Finals. The other participants qualified because of Championship Points. Each team got awarded a certain amount of points based on their final standing each split. Important to note is that Summer split granted a higher amount of points than Winter or Spring, to make sure our current best performing teams can represent the region at Worlds. Team BDS, EXCEL, Fnatic and SK Gaming will join G2 and MAD through their Championship Points.
So now let's take a look at the bracket. G2 and MAD start in the upper bracket as split champions. The teams with 3rd and 4th most Championship Points, BDS and XL, will also start in the upper bracket. G2 got to choose their opponents as 1st team and have opted into facing BDS in the first round. MAD will face XL.
Fnatic and SK, 5th and 6th on points respectively, will start in the lower bracket. Lose one series and they're out. They will face the losers of the upper bracket matches, with Fnatic getting the lower seeded opponent.
Any team can go to Worlds by winning at least 1 series. Top 3 teams qualify directly for the main event, while the 4th placed team will play a Bo5 vs NA LCS' 4th seed, Golden Guardians for the final ticket to Worlds. However please note that the victorious 4th seed will start their Worlds run in the play-in stage. I have edited LEC's graph to clarify which rounds need to be reached in order to secure a certain seed at Worlds.
LEC Team Breakdown
We've long gotten accustomed to these teams already, but here is a short overview of our 6 teams participating in the Season Finals. 3 or 4 of them will make it to Worlds. But only 1 of them will be crowned the King of EMEA...
Players To Watch
Obviously the team to beat remains G2. All of their players have pretty consistently shown a high level. Mainly the botlane, Hans Sama and Mikyx have been a terrifying duo. The latter especially looks like the frontrunner to become the 2023 LEC MVP. Not only the botlane, but BrokenBlade as well is coming off a great split. Ever since MSI he's been in great form. Beware of the 'Topfather'. Credit where it's due for XL too. They did the impossible to qualify for Season Finals and a lot of it is on the back of Odoamne. One of the most experienced players in the league, and he showed up big when it mattered the most. Not just on tanks, but also on carries like his signature
You can't really go wrong with any of these players for your fantasy team!
Fnatic didn't win the split, but that shouldn't take anything away from Razork's fantastic split. Especially when given carry picks and resources he shown the ability to completely take over games. It can't be coincidence that Razork's form massively improved when Trymbi joined Fnatic. The Polish support shotcalls, forms a great duo with Noah despite the language barrier, and all while putting up great individual performances himself. It's still surprising that KOI let him go so easily.
Alongside them in this list we have a former Fnatic player, MAD Lions' Nisqy. Even considering MAD's lackluster Summer performance, one cannot deny Nisqy had a great year so far. All his work effort has finally culminated in an LEC title, but no doubt he'll only be satisfied if he and MAD bounce back and qualify for Worlds. In order to do that he'll first has to get past Abbedagge (Fakerdagge), one of the standouts of Summer split and a huge part of XL's resurgence. After 2 years on 100 Thieves in NA, he has already made Worlds twice, and now he's looking for another appearance with XL.
Apart from the more experienced players, there's also plenty of young players hungry for their first international experience. Irrelevant has quietly been one of the best and most consistent toplaners in the LEC ever since his debut a year and a half ago. Even though he's not as flashy as Exakick or Sertuss, this man is probably the most valuable asset of SK. Similarly Sheo has been the quiet force behind 2023 BDS. A very smart jungler who always puts his laners before himself.
If you are on a budget, these players are most certainly worth a look for your fantasy teams!
Fantasy Tournament Tips & Tricks
Assign the right captain. Captains will earn you 1.5x more points across the board, so do a little research once you've assembled your team to figure out which player should be made captain. In general, bot laners followed by top and midlaners tend to make great captains, as they tend to garner the most kills and creep score across the games. Supports, on the other hand, may be a bigger gamble because they are comparatively weaker which could spell dying a lot.
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Choose teams that you predict will do well. Sounds obvious, but basically, you'll earn points if your fantasy players' teams win. Moreover, if your fantasy player is on a team that keeps losing, they'll probably not be able to deliver on fantastic stats. It's a lot harder to not die when your whole team is losing inhibitors by the 15th minute mark. There are players that tend to do well even on underperforming teams, but make sure to have at least a few players on your roster that are on winning teams.
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If you do end up in a situation where you've selected and captained a player that, against all odds, is now eliminated from the tournament, you can always sell them. You have one sell token per stage, so this is a precious resource and you should treat it this way though. Beware that this is a knockout tournament, you could be in a situation where several of your players have been eliminated, so let your sell token count!
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Invest more $$ on bot lane and top or midlane. As mentioned previously, these are the key roles when it comes to KDA. You won't be able to purchase five $200+ cost players, so focus your funds on bot lane > .... > supports. While supports can have great KDAs, and often do, most of the supports cost less than $200 and are actually fantastic. This is one category where it's totally okay to go low and not feel like you're missing out at all.
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Conclusion
Thanks for reading! Hopefully you have now completely caught up with the LEC Season Finals and our Fantasy Tournament. If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to leave a comment. But most importantly, enjoy the most important games of the year as we get to Worlds qualification! And happy Fantasy Team-building!
Credits go to LoL.fandom Wiki for their collection of player portraits, up-to-date statistics, overviews and all-around fantastic work documenting LoL esports.