Last year, Defense of the Ancients 2 (Dota2) made the headlines for hosting the highest prize money tournament in the history of eSports – The International – for the fourth consecutive time. Thanks to the DotA2-community it was possible to collect the record sum of 18,4 million USD. Thus some players became millionaires, were able to live the ‘eSports dream’ and become legends that now have a big fan base. Reason enough for us to check who are the most famous Dota2 pro players.

Therefore – as a part of our series of articles ‘Testimonials and influencers in eSports’ – we analyzed the social media appearances of professional Dota2 players, including facebook (likes), twitter (followers) and twitch.tv (followers and total channel views).

You can find the results below.

Note: The following data only takes professional Dota2 players into account who participated at the premier events in 2015 (such as The International, The Summit, MLG, ESL One and more). By looking at the data, please be aware of the fact that services like facebook, twitter or twitch.tv are not used by all professional players. Especially players from Asia use asia-based services.

The most famous Dota2 pro players on facebook (ordered by likes)

Player Country Club/Team

Likes 1. Clement Ivanov (Puppey) Estonia Team Secret 334,000 2. Chai Yee Fung (Mushi) Malaysia fnatic 189,500 3. Danil Ishutin (Dendi) Ukraine Natus Vincere 127,000 4. WehSing Yuen (SingSing)

Netherlands - 90,700 5. Henrik Ahnberg (AdmiralBulldog) Sweden Alliance 80,900 6. Artour Babaev (Arteezy) Canada /Uzbekistan Evil Geniuses 68,000 7. Syed Sumail Hassan (Suma1L) Pakistan / United States Evil Geniuses 65,000 8. Kuro Salehi Takhasomi (KuroKy) Germany /Iran Team Liquid 58,200 9. Jonathan Berg (Loda) Sweden Alliance 55,700 10. Daryl Koh Pei Xiang (iceiceice) Singapore Vici Gaming 52,000 11. Clinton Loomis (Fear) United States Evil Geniuses 37,000 12. Gleb Lipatnikov (Funn1k) Ukraine Team Empire 34,000 13. Johan Sundstein N0tail Denmark OG 32,600 14. Kurtis Ling (Aui_2000) Canada Digital Chaos 31,100 15. Jacky Mao (EternaLEnVy) Canada Team Secret 23,000 16. Aliwi Omar (w33) Syria / Romania Team Secret 20,800 17. Jimmy Ho (DeMoN) United States - 17,700 18. Saahil Arora (UNiVeRsE) United States Evil Geniuses 7,700 19. Rasmus Filipsen (MiSeRy) Denmark Team Secret 7,100 20. Alexander Dashkevich (XBOCT) Ukraine Team Empire 6,600

Bonus: You can download the Excel file with all data here .

The most famous Dota2 pro players on twitter (ordered by followers)

Player Country Club/Team

Followers 1. Danil Ishutin (Dendi) Ukraine Natus Vincere 334,000 2. Clement Ivanov (Puppey) Estonia Team Secret 179,000 3. Artour Babaev (Arteezy) Canada /Uzbekistan Evil Geniuses 169,000 4. Alexander Dashkevich (XBOCT) Ukraine Team Empire 168,000 5. Kuro Salehi Takhasomi (KuroKy) Germany / Iran Team Liquid 135,000 6. WehSing Yuen (SingSing)

Netherlands - 132,000 7. Clinton Loomis (Fear) United States Evil Geniuses 119,000 8. Jonathan Berg (Loda) Sweden Alliance 118,000 9. Gustav Magnusson (s4) Sweden Alliance 114,000 10. Gleb Lipatnikov (Funn1k) Ukraine Team Empire 110,000 11. Henrik Ahnberg (AdmiralBulldog) Sweden Alliance 106,000 12. Jacky Mao (EternaLEnVy) Canada Team Secret 106,000 13. Kurtis Ling (Aui_2000) Canada Digital Chaos 102,000 14. Johan Sundstein N0tail Denmark OG 87,600 15. Saahil Arora (UNiVeRsE) United States Evil Geniuses 84,200 16. Syed Sumail Hassan (Suma1L) Pakistan / United States Evil Geniuses 83,800 17. Daryl Koh Pei Xiang (iceiceice) Singapore Vici Gaming 83,100 18. Peter Dager (ppd) United States Evil Geniuses 78,100 19. Jimmy Ho (DeMoN) United States - 44,800 20. Alexei Berezin (Solo) Russia Vega Squadron 40,200

Bonus: You can download the Excel file with all data here .

The most famous Dota2 pro players on twitch.tv (ordered by followers)

Player Country Club/Team

Followers 1. Danil Ishutin (Dendi) Ukraine Natus Vincere 389,000 2. WehSing Yuen (SingSing)

Netherlands - 271,000 3. Artour Babaev (Arteezy) Canada /Uzbekistan Evil Geniuses 270,000 4. Henrik Ahnberg (AdmiralBulldog) Sweden Alliance 215,000 5. Alexei Berezin (Solo) Russia Vega Squadron 150,000 6. Jacky Mao (EternaLEnVy) Canada Team Secret 111,000 7. Alexander Dashkevich (XBOCT) Ukraine Team Empire 104,000 8. Aliwi Omar (w33) Syria / Romania Team Secret 104,000 9. Gleb Lipatnikov (Funn1k) Ukraine Team Empire 103,000 10. Chai Yee Fung (Mushi) Malaysia fnatic 73,000 11. Peter Dager (ppd) United States Evil Geniuses 71,000 12. Syed Sumail Hassan (Suma1L) Pakistan / United States Evil Geniuses 68,000 13. Johan Sundstein N0tail Denmark OG 66,000 14. Jimmy Ho (DeMoN) United States - 60,000 15. Kurtis Ling (Aui_2000) Canada Digital Chaos 60,000 16. Clinton Loomis (Fear) United States Evil Geniuses 59,000 17. David Tan (MoonMeander) Canada / Malaysia OG 58,000 18. Clement Ivanov (Puppey) Estonia Team Secret 49,000 19. Saahil Arora (UNiVeRsE) United States Evil Geniuses 44,600 20. Ilya Korobkin (ALOHADANCE) Ukraine Team Empire 37,000

Bonus: You can download the Excel file with all data here .

The most famous Dota2 pro players on twitch.tv (ordered by total channel views)

Player Country Club/Team

Total channel views 1. Danil Ishutin (Dendi) Ukraine Natus Vincere 41,979,000 2. WehSing Yuen (SingSing)

Netherlands - 38,493,000 3. David Tan (MoonMeander) Canada / Malaysia OG 29,074,000 4. Artour Babaev (Arteezy) Canada / Uzbekistan Evil Geniuses 26,741,000 5. Jimmy Ho (DeMoN) United States - 20,254,000 6. Henrik A. (AdmiralBulldog) Sweden Alliance 20,050,000 7. Alexei Berezin (Solo) Russia Vega Squadron 16,081,000 8. Jacky Mao (EternaLEnVy) Canada Team Secret 13,260,000 9. Gleb Lipatnikov (Funn1k) Ukraine Team Empire 13,064,000 10. Clinton Loomis (Fear) United States Evil Geniuses 7,090,000 11. Peter Dager (ppd) United States Evil Geniuses 5,997,000 12. Alexander Dashkevich (XBOCT) Ukraine Team Empire 5,736,000 13. Daryl Koh Pei Xiang (iceiceice) Singapore Vici Gaming 5,516,000 14. Kurtis Ling (Aui_2000) Canada Digital Chaos 4,849,000 15. Aliwi Omar (w33) Syria / Romania Team Secret 4,642,000 16. Kyle Freedman (swindlemelonzz) United States complexity 3,920,000 17. Ilya Korobkin (ALOHADANCE) Ukraine Team Empire 2,713,000 18. Syed Sumail Hassan (Suma1L) Pakisten / United States Evil Geniuses 2,031,000 19. Saahil Arora (UNiVeRsE) United States Evil Geniuses 1,530,000 20. Johan Sundstein N0tail Denmark OG 1,527,000

Bonus: You can download the Excel file with all data here .

The most famous Dota2 pro players (EMB rating)

Player

Likes

Followers

Followers

Total channel views EMB Rating* 1. Danil Ishutin (Dendi) 127,000 334,000 389,000 41,979,000 4.283 2. WehSing Yuen (SingSing)

90,700 132,000 271,000 38,493,000 3,899 3. David Tan (MoonMeander) 3,900 24,500 58,000 29,074,000 2.916 4. Artour Babaev (Arteezy) 68,000 169,000 270,000 26,741,000 2.725 5. Henrik A.(AdmiralBulldog) 80,900 106,000 215,000 20,050,000 2.045 6. Jimmy Ho (DeMoN) 17,700 44,800 60,000 20,254,000 2.038 7. Alexei Berezin (Solo) 0 40,200 150,000 16,081,000 1.627 8. Jacky Mao (EternaLEnVy) 23,000 106,000 111,000 1,326,000 1.350 9. Gleb Lipatnikov (Funn1k) 34,000 110,000 103,000 1,306,400 1.331 10. Clinton Loomis (Fear) 37,000 119,000 59,000 7,090,000 0.731 11. Peter Dager (ppd) 4,700 78,100 71,000 5,997,000 0.615 12. Alexander Dashkevich (XBOCT) 6,600 168,000 104,000 5,736,000 0.601 13. Daryl Koh Pei Xiang (iceiceice) 52,000 83,100 34,600 5,516,000 0.569 14. Kurtis Ling (Aui_2000) 31,100 102,000 60,000 4,849,000 0.504 15. Aliwi Omar (w33) 20,800 19,300 104,000 4,642,000 0.479 16. Kyle F. (swindlemelonzz) 3,400 2,800 8,800 3,920,000 0.394 17. Ilya Korobkin (ALOHADANCE) 0 17,400 37,000 2,713,000 0.277 18. Syed Sumail Hassan (Suma1L) 65,000 83,800 68,000 2,031,000 0.225 19. Clement Ivanov (Puppey) 334,000 179,000 49,000 1,379,000 0.194 20. Johan Sundstein N0tail 32,600 87,600 66,000 1,527,000 0.171

not give information about engagement, activity or other related data, it can be considered as an indicator regarding the popularity of a player. The rating only takes professional Dota2 players into account who participated at the * The eSports Marketing Blog rating (EMB rating) is a figure which is calculated by adding the cumulative amount of facebook-likes, twitter-and twitch.tv-channel-followers as well as the total amount of channel views of a certain player. This sum is divided by ten million. Although the figure doesgive information about engagement, activity or other related data, it can be considered as an indicator regarding the popularity of a player. The rating only takes professional Dota2 players into account who participated at the premier events in 2015 (such as The International, The Summit, MLG, ESL One and more). By looking at the data, please be aware of the fact that services like facebook, twitter or twitch.tv are not used by all professional players. Especially players from Asia use asia-based services. By looking at the stats, please be aware of the fact that services like facebook, twitter or twitch.tv are used by most of the professional players, but some dont use all of them. Especially players from Asia use asia-based services.

Bonus: You can download the Excel file with all data here .

Tomorrow we will release the statistics regarding the most famous professional players in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. Stay tuned!

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// Image source: eslgaming.com / Photographer: Patrick Strack

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