How do you know that an eSport is popular? You look at its viewers. Today, we checked statistics to see the biggest peak viewer number among eSports games; let’s see them.

League of Legends

We start with a MOBA pioneer. Coming out in 2009, League of Legends quickly became trending. In 2012, the game already had 3 million daily players.

LoL has straightforward rules. As in any other MOBA, the game is about 2 teams battling on a three-laned map. Each team has 5 players.

Before the game starts, players pick champions with different abilities and stats and take their roles. When they enter a map, they spread across lanes according to their roles. Now, they farm.

Players strive to get ahead of their opponents in gold (to purchase items) and experience (to have stronger abilities). It creates a critical mass enough for the final push. To perform it, a team must break outer turrets, access the enemy’s base, and destroy their final structure.

On November 19, 2023, 6,402,760 viewers watched this gameplay. It was the time during The Worlds, a main LoL tournament of the year. In 2023, team T1, with a legendary midlaner Faker, won the World Championship trophy for the fourth time.

That was an immense number of viewers. It means that currently, you can bet on eSports with some of the best bonuses and odds. Don’t miss your chance while the game is hot.

Mobile Legends: Bang Bang

This game will be a surprise for many. Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is another viral MOBA game in Asia. And what’s even more strange, it’s for mobile.

ML: BB gameplay is similar to LoL. In fact, Riot Games (LoL developer) sued Moonton (ML: BB developer) for plagiarism. They won. But Moonton quickly released a new game, changing it, so they’re out of trouble.

So, in Mobile Legends, there are also two teams of five players and a three-lane map. Players pick characters, take roles, distribute between the map, and chase experience and gold. And then, they strive to destroy the enemy’s main building.

The M5 World Championship was the most popular ML: BB event in 2023. It featured 22 teams and a $900,000 prize pool. This number wasn’t hard to find, considering M5 has 4 major sponsors: Qiddya, Republic of Gamers, Grab Unlimited, and Secretlab.

Counter-Strike 2

Rooting from 1999, Counter-Strike made a long way till 2023. The game underwent several versions, finally leading to Counter-Strike 2, released in 2023.

CS 2 didn’t get many changes. The game is a good old tactical shooter featuring two teams of five players. One of them is terrorists, and another is counter-terrorists.

Based on the map, teams’ objectives alter. For instance, on the Office map, T defend hostages while CT strive to rescue them. With iconic Dust 2, the situation is different. Here, CT defend from T, who try to plant and detonate a bomb.

However, completing these objectives is unnecessary. Instead, a team can just eliminate the enemies, which will also give them a score. By having 12 of them, a team wins a match.

The most popular CS 2 event was in May. It was a BLAST.tv Paris Major, whose GL vs Vitality (finals) match attracted 1,528,724 viewers. But it was before Counter-Strike 2. When it came out 4 months later, CS got a crazy hype. So expect upcoming events to bang even more.

Valorant

Does CS seem boring to you? Riot Games thought the same, which motivated it to release a Valorant in 2020.

The game is also a tactical shooter with two teams of five players, but it’s not only about guns. Here, players pick agenets. These are characters with unique abilities to damage, scout, support, etc.

It brings new colors into the old tactical shooter genre. Now, pro players combine different characters to achieve victory, which makes each match unique. It’s what the game is famous for.

During Valorant Champions 2023 (the main annual event), the final match of Paper Rex and Evil Geniuses was viewed by 1,291,045 people. EG won. They got the title of absolute Valorant champions and $1,000,000.