Dota 2 Champions League S5 betting picks – Saturday, November 13

Esportbet returns with betting predictions for two Dota 2 Champions League Season 5 bouts on Saturday, November 13. Here are our selections for Nemiga Gaming vs Khan and Team Empire vs Creepwave, with top odds courtesy of BetOnline.


Nemiga Gaming haven’t had the best start to the tournament. They lost to Team Empire (1-2) on Wednesday but bounced back with a 2-0 sweep of HYDRA on Thursday, yet even that win is hardly worth celebrating.

Nemiga have yet to impress, which is reasonable since they are playing with two stand-ins in Yevgeny “Heaven” Ponomariov and Ivan “VANSKOR” Skorokhod, which is far from optimal. And it doesn’t help that their core hasn’t won anything of note this entire year.

Khan can hardly be viewed as a better team purely looking at their roster, but they’re still 1-0 up in the head-to-head and have looked much better so far in this competition. The Dota 2 betting odds on Khan are not great, but they’re fair.


Even though Team Empire are good, they have yet to show anything suggesting they might be better than Creepwave. Remco “Crystallis” Arets and co. hold a perfect 3-0 record after three rounds of play; however, they have dropped a map against Khan and came close to losing against NoMarci on Wednesday.

So while Creepwave have won more games, they have also shown some cracks. These two teams last met during the ESL One Fall 2021 qualifiers in August, when Empire won 2-1, albeit with a different roster.

Creepwave should win, but they have yet to produce a clean game this tournament, signifying they might drop a map. Over 2.5 maps at even money or better is a great choice.