So, you’ve decided to start betting on League of Legends, you thought about betting on the winner of matchups but noticed other markets on bookmarker sites?

Well, let us explain the multiple different ways to bet on LoL games, and we will also tell you what the best ones are to make money.

To win at least 1 Map

When you know the game will have a fairly even matchup, this market is a great way to create excellent doubles. Of course this requires matches that are usually best of three (BO3), like in LCK (League of Legends Champions Korea) or LPL (The Tencent League of Legends Pro League China) where all games in the group stage are best of three contests.

Correct Map Score

When the games are BO3, you can also bet on correct map score for example 2-0 or 2-1, and you can find nice value picks from this section. Even if the other team is a clear favourite to win by a 2-0 margin, you can find odds like 1.80 for them to win 2-0.

Team to draw First Blood

This can be a risky one but very profitable. Watching the games and analyzing statistics can get you a long way. For example in NA LCS team Immortals have drawn first blood in all of their 10 games, and still they have had odds of over 1.70 for first blood in all of their games. Different teams play with different level of aggressiveness and really thrive to grab the first blood, but it can also backfire on them.

Team to destroy First Tower

With first blood, this also has high stakes. One to pick when we live in a world where in many games, team lane swaps and really push to get the first tower down quicker than the other one to put pressure on the map early.

It really depends on which team can ward aggressively to get knowledge about the map and the lane swap. You can also look for the VOD’s (Video On Demand, replays) about the games the teams have played and how they have pushed for towers in their previous games.

Team to destroy First Inhibitor

If you have a fair idea of which team will dominate the game and how they snowball when they’re ahead, this could be a really nice pick. The odds vary from 1.35 to 1.80 for favourites and you could make a doubles system bet and have nice value on them.

Total dragons over/under 3,5

Thus far killing dragons haven’t been much of a priority in this current meta, but it will all change when they buff dragon buffs for the next one. When the new meta goes live and if the sites does not react to it, you could make a nice pile of bucks with this one. Normal over 3,5 dragons have given odds of 2.25 and under around 1.60 to 1.70, so picking the over in the coming meta will very popular thing to bet.

Team to Slay First Baron

If you are an active LOL follower and know how different teams value killing Baron early or try to force it, this bet always gives you pretty nice odds. Even with clear favourites for the matchup, you can get a 1.60 odd for the favourites to kill the first Baron. It is always about how the match has gone for the first 20 minutes when Baron spawns which team is in better position to challenge killing it.

We hope this helps you to pick different markets for your betting!

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