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2017 Fantasy LCS Mock Draft

Riot·5/28/2017, 9:29:12 PM·1 votes·15,323 views

Now that it is Fantasy time yet again, I gathered some of our Fantasy fanatics and LCS experts (some self claimed) together from both sides of the pond to ring in the first official draft of the Summer Split.

Our six drafters were:

  • David “Phreak” Turley - NA LCS Shoutcaster
  • Chris “Chopper” Hopper - League Ops / International Lead
  • Trevor “Quickshot” Henry - EU LCS Shoutcaster
  • Daniel “Drakos” Drakos - EU LCS Shoutcaster
  • Tom “TomMartell” Martell - Sacrificial Fantasy Author
  • Andrew “Vedius” Day - EU LCS Shoutcaster

Round 1​

  • Phreak: Doublelift - ADC, TSM
  • Chopper: Bjergsen - MID, TSM
  • Quickshot: Zven - ADC, G2
  • Drakos: Jensen - MID, C9
  • Martell: Sneaky - ADC, C9
  • Vedius: Perkz - MID, G2

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Typically ADCs and Mids produce the highest volume of points for fantasy, as they often have high KDAs and they get a lot of CS. Accordingly, our mock draft followed suit with the top ADCs and Mids coming off the board in Round 1. Phreak stayed true to his NA roots when he made Doublelift the top choice of the draft. Will Doublelift return to his old TSM form this split? Phreak certainly thinks so.

It is no coincidence that all six players this round came from TSM, C9 and G2, the three best teams in LCS. The G2 players are especially interesting given the new EU scoring. G2 will get its score doubled against Mysterious Monkeys (Week 5), Vitality (Week 7) and Ninjas in Pajamas (Week 8), effectively giving them extra games against the consensus bottom three teams in EU. This favorable schedule combined with G2’s expected strong performance sets them even further ahead of the pack. For that reason, I really like Quickshot’s pick of Zven third and Vedius’ pick of Perkz sixth. They both have a great shot at being the top scorers in their positions.

Round 2

  • Vedius: Febiven - MID, H2K
  • Martell: PowerOfEvil - MID, MSF
  • Drakos: Rekkles - ADC, FNC
  • Quickshot: Hai - MID, FLY
  • Chopper: Arrow - ADC, P1
  • Phreak: Ryu - MID, P1

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Six more picks and six more volume scorers off the board. Arrow, the Spring Split MVP and the second highest scorer in Fantasy last split, slipped to Chopper with the 11th pick overall (and the fifth ADC taken). If Arrow repeats his performance from last split, this is going to be a big win for Chopper and might be the best value pick in the entire draft.

With the S tier mid laners already off the board, Quickshot may have stretched a little with his selection of Hai with the 10th pick. Hai finished in 5th among mids in points per game, but he really struggled in the second half of the split. He will need to return to the form he showed as Flyquest rattled off their 6-1 start to justify this selection.

This round also saw our first interesting strategy decision. Vedius immediately committed his flex pick by selecting back to back Mids. This gamble may cost him some value in later rounds. Is Febiven really that much better than the top ADCs on the board at this point? If Vedius thinks that the ADC pool is deeper than the Mid pool, he could be squeezing the other teams and deny them a top mid laner while picking up a solid ADC in the next round.

Round 3

  • Phreak: Contractz - JNG, C9
  • Chopper: Exileh - MID, UOL
  • Quickshot: Caps - MID, FNC
  • Drakos: Trick - JNG, G2
  • Martell:  Vizicsacsi - TOP, UOL
  • Vedius: Xerxe - JNG, UOL

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Round 3 finally breaks the ice for the other positions. Phreak made Contractz the first Jungler off the board, but he almost immediately announced that he regretted his pick when Drakos took  Trick a few picks later. Vedius also piled into the Jungle as he wasted no time in selecting last season’s premiere fantasy Jungler, Xerxe, with the last pick of the round. Xerxe averaged almost 19.5 points per game, putting him in the top 5 for fantasy scoring and potentially giving Vedius first round value with the 18th pick.

With my pick this round, I made Vizicsacsi the first Top laner selected. Csacsi was the only Top laner to average more than 19 points, and with Impact mired in a time share situation with Ray, no Top laner came close to matching his productivity last season.

Round 4

  • Vedius: Mithy - SUP, G2
  • Martell: Jankos - JNG, H2K
  • Drakos:  Hjarnan - ADC, ROC
  • Quickshot: Hauntzer - TOP, TSM
  • Chopper: Svenskeren - JNG, TSM
  • Phreak: G2 Esports - TEAM, G2 

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Vedius started off the fourth round with a very early Support selection. Mithy is the last remaining G2 starter, but he only put up a pedestrian 13.9 points per game last split. He will really need to capitalize on some G2 point inflation to justify a fourth round selection.

Phreak also broke new ground by selecting Team G2 at the end of the round, passing up on the chance to take the third Top laner of the draft. While I often see drafters waiting until the last rounds to fill their team slot because teams don’t put up the gaudy point totals you can get from other positions, the relative value of the top teams is actually quite high and there is a steep drop off after the top 4. Our other drafters also recognize this as Phreak’s selection sets off a run on Teams - no one wants to get stuck with a third tier Team.

Round 5

  • Phreak: Biofrost - SUP, TSM
  • Chopper: TSM - TEAM, TSM
  • Quickshot: Smoothie - SUP, C9
  • Drakos: Expect - TOP, G2
  • Martell: Cloud9 - TEAM, C9
  • Vedius: Unicorns of Love - TEAM, UOL

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The remaining three top teams come off the board in the 5th round, leaving Drakos and Quickshot to fight over the scraps. Phreak completed his TSM bot lane and doubles down on his Doublelift bet with Biofrost, while Quickshot picked up the other premiere NA support. Smoothie was the best performing Support in Spring by a large margin, so this should be a nice pickup for him. G2 became the second team to be fully drafted as Drakos selected Expect as his Top laner.

Round 6

  • Vedius:Odoamne - TOP, H2K
  • Martell:WildTurtle - ADC, FLY
  • Drakos: Fnatic - TEAM, FNC 
  • Quickshot: H2K - TEAM, H2K
  • Chopper: Wunder - TOP, SPY
  • Phreak: Stixxay - ADC, CLG

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​Odoamne and Wunder both put up big numbers last split, so Chopper and Vedius pinch the Top pool.  This could punish Phreak for delaying his selection. I spent a lot of time debating which ADC to pick up for my Flex slot, and ultimately I decided to gamble on WildTurtle’s reunion with his old pals Balls, Hai and Lemon. He had a solid but uninspiring split in the Spring where he actually finished behind Altec in fantasy scoring. Hopefully his reunion with Lemon will lead to a more fruitful summer.

Round 7

  • Phreak: Ssumday - TOP, DIG
  • Chopper: Olleh - SUP, IMT
  • Quickshot: IgNar - SUP, MSF
  • Drakos: Chei - SUP, H2K
  • Martell: Hylissang, - SUP, UOL
  • Vedius: Kobbe - ADC, SPY 

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Round 7 saw most of the teams complete their starting rosters as we filled out our flex slots or grabbed our last starter. Quickshot actually misstepped in this round - he forgot that he had already picked up Smoothie and he drafted a second support in Misfit’s IgNar. IgNar actually had a great Spring split, so this pick denied a good Support from both Drakos and myself, but it left Quickshot still short a Jungler.

I’ve seen many EU commentators predicting a big split from Kobbe, and Vedius selected him over the better spring performer in Hans Sama. This may have something to do with the difficult fantasy schedule that Misfits will be facing - they won’t have any of their games against the bottom EU teams doubled, while having five of their six games against the top 2 seeds in each bracket count for double points.

Round 8

  • Vedius: Alphari - TOP, MSF 
  • Martell: Impact - TOP, C9
  • Drakos: Darshan - TOP, CLG
  • Quickshot: Broxah - JNG, FNC
  • Chopper: Nuclear - ADC, H2K
  • Phreak: sOAZ - TOP, FNC

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The later rounds of the draft are the time for high risk, high reward picks. I quickly snapped up Impact, who would almost certainly have been the first top laner picked if Ray wasn’t taking play time from him. If that situation settles down in Impact’s favor, this could be the steal of the draft.

Round 9

  • Phreak: Pirean - MID, NV
  • Chopper: Zig - TOP, P1 
  • Quickshot: Maxlore - JNG, MSF 
  • Drakos: Dardoch - JNG, CLG
  • Martell: Akaadian - JNG, FOX
  • Vedius: Aphromoo - SUP, CLG

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Quickshot made up for forgetting about the jungle with his second consecutive EU Jungler pick. Maxlore was one of the lowest producing fantasy Junglers last season, but with his new home on Misfits he might be able to turn that around. I was looking to pick up a backup Jungler this round so I could play my weekly matchups and sit Jankos when he plays his doubled matches against G2 and UOL. Unfortunately Drakos sniped Dardoch right out from under me, so I settled for Akaadian. Akaadian had a very volatile rookie split but showed flashes of brilliance. He was the only Jungler with multiple 30 point games (and another game just below at 29.3) - if he figures out how to avoid the meltdowns like his 6 point performance against NV, he has second round potential.

Round 10

  • Vedius: Trashy - JNG, SPY 
  • Martell: Sencux - MID, SPY
  • Drakos: Froggen - MID, FOX 
  • Quickshot: Piglet - ADC, TL
  • Chopper: Mikyx - SUP, SPY 
  • Phreak: LirA - JNG, NV

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Quickshot decided to take a last round flier on Piglet, hoping he finds his all-star form in his return to the bot lane. This is a perfect lottery ticket for these late selections. I continued my strategy of hedging my EU starters by picking up Sencux, which will let me sit PowerOfEvil when he is facing a doubled G2 or UOL matchup.

I really like Drakos’ pick of Froggen this round. Even after putting up four very weak matches to close out Spring, Froggen still quietly finished in 6th among Mid laners, including two of the four 33+ point performances (Jensen and Bjergsen each had one). Froggen is an Anivia buff away from being a top pick, which is great value for the last round.

Conclusions

Team Phreak 

  • Top: Ssumday, DIG
  • Jungle: Contractz, C9
  • Mid: Ryu, P1
  • ADC: Doublelift, TSM
  • Support: Biofrost, TSM
  • Flex: Stixxay, CLG
  • Team: G2
  • Sub: sOAZ, FNC
  • Sub: Pirean, NV
  • Sub: LirA, NV 

Team Chopper

  • Top: Wunder, SPY
  • Jungle: Svensekeren, TSM
  • Mid: Bjergsen, TSM
  • ADC: Arrow, P1
  • Support: Olleh, IMT
  • Flex: Exileh, UOL
  • Team: TSM
  • Sub: Nuclear, H2K
  • Sub: Zig, P1
  • Sub: Mikyx, SPY

Team Quickshot​

  • Top: Hauntzer, TSM
  • Jungle: Maxlore, MSF
  • Mid: Hai, FLY
  • ADC: Zven, G2
  • Support: Smoothie, C9
  • Flex: Caps, FNC
  • Team: H2K
  • Sub: IgNar, MSF
  • Sub: Broxah, FNC
  • Sub: Piglet, TL

Team Drakos

  • Top: Expect, G2
  • Jungle: Trick, G2
  • Mid: Jensen, C9
  • ADC: Rekkles, FNC
  • Support: Chei, H2K
  • Flex: Hjarnan, ROC
  • Team: FNC
  • Sub: Darshan, CLG
  • Sub: Dardoch, CLG
  • Sub: Froggen, FOX

House of Martell

  • Top: Vizicsacsi, UOL
  • Jungle: Jankos, H2K
  • Mid: PowerOfEvil, MSF
  • ADC: Sneaky, C9
  • Support: Hylissang, UOL
  • Flex: WildTurtle, FLY
  • Team: C9
  • Sub: Impact, C9
  • Sub: Akaadian, FOX
  • Sub: Sencux, SPY

Team Vedius

  • Top: Odoamne, H2K
  • Jungle: Xerxe, UOL
  • Mid: Perkz, G2
  • ADC: Kobbe, SPY
  • Support: Mithy, G2
  • Flex: Febiven, H2K
  • Team: UOL
  • Sub: Alphari, MSF
  • Sub: Aphromoo, CLG
  • Sub: Trashy, SPY

I think we ended up with six pretty strong teams, and everyone has a good chance to bring home the title this split. In the end, four teams were fully drafted (G2, TSM, Splyce and H2K), with five more offering up four players each (UOL, Fnatic, Misfits, C9, CLG). Dignitas, Immortals, Team Liquid and ROCCAT each only had one player selected, while Vitality and EU LCS newcomers Ninjas in Pyjamas and Mysterious Monkeys were left untouched.

Who has your favorite team? What was the best and worst picks of the draft? Who are the best players that were left off of our rosters? Will anyone on Vitality, Ninjas in Pyjamas or Mysterious Monkeys emerge and leave us wondering how we missed them?

Share your thoughts in the comments and make sure to jump into a fantasy league with your friends to bring home a title yourself this split.

 

Tom Martell is a senior manager on our esports team providing leadership and strategic support across multiple initiatives. When not getting crushed at League, Tom moonlights as a professional Magic the Gathering player. You can reach him on Twitter as @TomMartell.

15 Comments

Eleshakai5/29/2017, 3:34:23 PM7 votes

I just really wish they'd add a solo 'dream team' fantasy mode where I could just build the team I want and have the points automatically calculated. I'm not really interested in the whole competitive drafting, I'm just curious to see how my dream team would perform.

xayahs bich5/29/2017, 1:00:43 AM3 votes

Well C9 did have 5 players picked. Just not all 6 counting Ray

Smart Kitty5/28/2017, 10:28:40 PM2 votes

Is that a typo, or is Akaadian really on P1 now?

ctdunlop5/29/2017, 1:33:06 PM1 votes

S tier: Vesius, Quickshot A tier: Martel B tier: Drakos, Chopper C tier: Phreak

PKThunder2475/29/2017, 7:44:23 PM1 votes

Questionable first pick of doublelift. I would value Bjergsen, Jensen, Arrow, Sven, Perkz, and Sneaky over him.

III BAKURYU III 5/30/2017, 5:14:55 AM1 votes

Phreak The D-Lift and Bio mix will heavily and most likely give him high PTS but taking a full team Bot lane can be risk, however the best duo/team I don't think it will backfire for him.
Ssumday will give Phreak decent amount of PTS, mainly because Ssumday farms for 40 years it seems so his CS PTS will be high also from Ssumday being a good splitpusher that scales up great. Garbage bench in my opinion Pirean - meh Soaz- Last few splits have looked awful. Lira- Will once again have to 1v9, so the PTS might not be there. G2- #1 objective focus team from last split, like this team were so good at getting towers, dragons etc so taking G2 isn't a bad choice. Ryu - Overall an ok mid roamer which in the end could lead to some deaths in river and some -PTS, his team goes down, I see him going down as far as PTS are concerned... DUH right. Overall B-

CHOOPER Bjergsen / Arrow - Not much to talk about here, expect Arrow's duo in lane Slim Shady, who could have a very "Gate" like performance this split. Exileh - Very underrated player and great pickup. Wunder/Sven/Olleh all are coming into Summer with HUGE ? as far as what players are we going to get Are we going to see the 1v5 Wunder, the counter jungle 24/7 and dying like a fool from Sven and Olleh needing to babysit Cody? Huge risk Overall C-

QUICKSHOT Overall a good lineup from QS, but I don't know about Ignar from MFS, I think he left the team? H2K - Good team/players/ORG etc but holy are they in a tough group, this team will need to be 2X better than what they were last split.
Maxlore - IDK, I want to say he will suck but IDK honestly. Hai - Some games he goes 3 kills 0 deaths and other times he goes 0 kills and like 10 deaths.
Wouldn't be surprised if Hauntzer and Smoothie are the only players that gives QS consistent PTS. Zven is great but some games he does shit all, 10/10 on CS PTS tho. Overall A-

DRAKOS This dude's team will be stacked as far as CS goes Rekkles and Hjarnan both farmed like 350+ cs per game and Jensen was a little higher than that and Trick's was I think #1 as far as jungles' CS goes. Doesn't hurt having also Expect/Darshan the EU Ssumday as far as farming goes and AFK splitpushers and the CS monster himself Froggen. Rekkles is a safe player so the deaths won't be higher than 1.9 something per game, Jensen is the same, Hjarnan as well.
This dude has the CS and lowest deaths imaginable. Overall A+

MARTELL GOT anyone ? grrrrrrrrr. Now that I have that Viper vs Mountain scene in my head! This guy has a nice team also if I say so myself.
The more Assists that Hylissang gets just means the more deaths. Like Hylissang will give him like a steady 9 assists for 3-4 deaths so balancing that out is ? for me, his CS is good too for a support tho. Vizi and Turtle will be 50/50 as far as production goes, similar to Hylissang.
PowerofEvil and Sneaky will both do their things getting PTS.
Great top depth with Impact but will Impact falloff some ?
Jankos pretty much had an all-Star performance last year so expecting much the same. Overall A

VEDIUS hmmm, all over the place with this one I sense. Kobbe is hmmm, Aphromoo and Alphari are decent pick ups nothing bad, but more upside than downside tho.
UOL - I mean runner up to G2 in Playoffs isn't a bad choice either. Xerxe - Will most likely falloff a bit from his great split from before tho in my opinion and Febiven hasn't looked the same since leaving FNC so maybe a 27 PT average from him or doubled since EU doubles per players or something ? Trash was a ? pick up but what are you going to do not fill out your roster Overall C+

If he subs right I think Drakos has this one, if he doesn't win tho I do expect his FULL team to win the most PTS that he has.

The5/31/2017, 12:25:34 PM1 votes

where are krepos picks

shroo5/31/2017, 3:01:01 PM1 votes

http://fantasy.lolesports.com/share/join/league/1194341/z4xvBLCDn23yTPcKJHMu

Th3ch0senJUan6/1/2017, 1:51:08 AM1 votes

two more spots left; http://fantasy.lolesports.com/share/join/league/1189490/RWHymqu6gI0OoQgNUCDT

MyNamelsJeff6/1/2017, 2:54:09 PM1 votes

http://fantasy.lolesports.com/share/join/league/1196291/rGIF3lKe7ZASpNVxnLqC

spots open!!!

TrollFan015/28/2017, 11:18:56 PM1 votes

DL, Bjerg, Sneaky, Jensen, Perks, and Sven, are always safe bets.

Ale non è male5/29/2017, 12:03:51 AM1 votes

Vedius has the best team overall, as the only bad selection was likely Trashy on 10th round, it has only to be seen if xerxe can increase a little more his fantasy value to make him the clear leader

Martell despite some headscratching selections in some crucial rounds (Sneaky in 1st round? Wildturtle early as Flex pick in 6th? ) somehow ended up with a team as good as Vedius one (I'd give Vedius the slicht edge because I think PerkZ+Kobbe > PoE+ Sneaky) given the steals he got here and there, especially on UOL duo and Jankos

Drakos team is in between the top teams and the others, he had likely the best aggregated line-up after the first 3 rounds (Jensen-Rekkles-Trick), then kinda like got lost in the next rounds and wasted the advntage he had...Hjarnan has good value but everyone except Vedius had yet picked up a top tier ADC so it wasn't worth as 4th round pick to take a player away from any other guy as Flex, then picked up Expcet ahead of odoamne in round 5 which is headscratching, preferred Chei to Hylissang as support - I do not agree but is fine I guess - . went for very hit or miss player in CLG top/jgl duo in round 8 and 9 that give him no guarantee as subs before closing surprsingly well with a huge steal in Froggen on the last round

The other teams are on a lower level, the better team of the other is Quickshot's one, which had straight bad choices in some rounds (Hai 2nd round is bad, Ignar in 7th is bad given he hadn't finished his starter line-up yet with a jungler), but somehow made up for his weaknesses better than the others below (some people let Caps pass, and Broxah/Maxlore are a very good consolation prie at jungle)

Chopper come next, as he has a decent team, but went so hard for TSM core (Sven on 4th pick is not good, especially after picking a second midlaner in Exlieh on round 3 as back-up for Bjergsen which was his 1st round pick which he is not likely to sub and with only Quickshot/Phreak weak on midlane, TSM team on 5th round is good but the team was far from complete at that point) that he had to scrap the bottom of the barrel - related to good players/starters - in round 6 to get a top laner in Wunder and in round 7 Olleh - which is a good pick by value in itself - before commodities on known strong teams like Chei and Hylissang is a big act of faith towards IMT performing as a whole (not that I disagree, but no need to take the risk at that point, imho), and at that point he hadn't enough spots to cover himself for every role with subs, leaving jungle without a proper sub for Sven ups and downs and having a relatively weak top lane duo

Phreak is dead last team, imho. Ryu in 2nd round is a bad choice, Contracts in 3rd was taken too high too, the move for G2 team in 4th round was indeed pretty good, but he wasted immediately the good thing he had just done with the very early selection of Biofrost on 5th round when he still had to pick up a top laner, and double it down with Stixxay selection on 6th round which is very good for value, but left him very weak on top laners, and he had to scrap the bottom of the barrel himself with Ssumday and sOAZ in round 7 and 8 which are huge gambles (Dignitas do not seem very good, soaz is known to not perform at his best on RS). Pirean at round 9 to cover for Ryu in mid lane is the worst pick overall in the enitre draft (seriously, Pirean? he won't even start probably and NV is poised to not be much better than what it was in Spring), and a steal like LirA in 10th round (which for example could have helped a ton someone like Chopper or Vedius) is not nearly enought o make up for the bad moves in the draft

Surprised no one gambled on someone like Pridestalker or Hans Sama in EU and Reignover or Cody Sun in NA