by Week 1 of League of Legends Champions Korea (LCK) 2023 Summer continues on Saturday, June 10, and here you can find ESB’s free betting picks for Liiv SANDBOX vs Nongshim RedForce and Kwangdong Freecs vs OKSavingsBank BRION.
LIIV SANDBOX vs NONGSHIM REDFORCE LoL BETTING & MATCH DETAILS |
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| Best Odds: | SANDBOX -10000 at BetOnline | Nongshim +600 at BetOnline |
| When: | June 10, 2023 | 15:00 KST |
| Watch Live: | Lolesports, Twitch |
According to the outright LCK 2023 Summer betting odds, Nongshim RedForce are one of the weakest teams in the league. They finished LCK 2023 Spring in 10th place with a 2-16 record, and without any significant roster changes, it’s tough to imagine them improving.
Nongshim opted to use 2023 as an experimental year by promoting the academy roster to the main lineup at the start of the season and sticking with the plan going into the summer split. But even though this roster lacks experience and doesn’t field any proven players, it has potential for growth.
Liiv SANDBOX finished LCK 2023 Spring in sixth place, but they likely won’t improve on that in this split – even with the signing of Park “Teddy” Jin-seong. Adding a former T1 ADC to the roster sounds good and adds to the hype, but Teddy is not the solution for SANDBOX, who have other areas they need to improve to be competitive.
The best League of Legends betting sites have Liiv SANDBOX priced as unbackable favourites, which means the value lies elsewhere. Nongshim RedForce might be one of the weaker teams in the league, but they don’t deserve to be +600 underdogs against a team that showed nothing in the opening match of the split.
Nongshim RedForce +1.5 maps
KWANGDONG FREECS vs OKSAVINGSBANK BRION LoL BETTING & MATCH DETAILS |
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| Best Odds: | Freecs -175.44 at BetOnline | BRION +125 at BetOnline |
| When: | June 10, 2023 | 17:30 KST |
| Watch Live: | Lolesports, Twitch |
Kwangdong Freecs made quick work of DRX (2-0) on Thursday, but they still have a lot more to prove before we can start talking about their chances to compete for playoff spots. And the same holds true for OKSavingsBank BRION, who kicked off LCK 2023 Summer with a rough loss against Nongshim RedForce (1-2) – one of the weakest teams in the league.
It’s not fair to try to rank teams based on their performances in the first match of the split, but Kwangdong Freecs are rightly considered favourites in this clash. While they’re not a very good team, if we consider what the two squads showed last split and the quality of the players, Kwangdong Freecs should defeat OKSavingsBank BRION more times than not.
This is Kwangdong Freecs’ game to lose; however, at -175.44 with BetOnline, they’re not a good bet. Instead, we like under 22.5 kills for both maps. We haven’t seen many bloody games this season in LCK, and the teams seem to prefer a more slow-paced playstyle which might be the theme of the Korean LoL league until the meta shifts.
