Team Liquid’s History in MLBB

The Team Liquid esports club was founded way back in 2000 in the Netherlands, and over the past quarter-century, it has established itself as one of the world’s top organizations—the “Riders” field top-tier rosters across all popular competitive games, and MLBB was no exception.

Ahead of the 2024 Esports World Cup, Team Liquid signed two strong rosters in the two major regions—since then, the Philippine and Indonesian teams have been contending for all the most prestigious Mobile Legends titles. Today, we look back on the club’s brief but already extremely impressive history.

The organization joined the MLBB pro scene on May 21, 2024, by acquiring two teams at once—the championship-winning M4 roster from ECHO and the promising AURA Fire quintet from Indonesia.

Even before the move, the Filipino five-man squad was a star-studded roster with numerous achievements, so just five days later, they brought the new club its first title: On May 26, Team Liquid PH celebrated winning the MPL Philippines Season 13 championship and headed to the 2024 Mid-Season Cup in Riyadh as the clear favorite. 

It wasn’t a fairy-tale ending for Team Liquid: in the MSC semifinals, the Philippine team Falcons APBren managed to get revenge on Liquid PH for their MPL loss, so the “Riders” finished only in 3rd–4th place at their debut international tournament. Nevertheless, this standout roster proved to be a worthy representative of a major multigaming organization in a discipline new to them.

Things turned out to be more difficult with the Indonesian roster—by the time of the announcement, Team Liquid ID was in contention for a spot in the 2024 Mid-Season Cup, but in the MPL Indonesia playoffs, they couldn’t handle the pressure and were eliminated in the first round.

The regional league turned out to be the only tournament for Liquid ID’s debut roster: this summer, the club will carry out a series of roster shuffles between the main team and the academy, which also came to Liquid ID via a contract with AURA Fire.

In the second half of the 2024 season, the fortunes of the two teams took completely different turns. Team Liquid PH kept its roster intact, but failed to win a single tournament for the rest of the year. In August, the team lost to the same Falcons AP.Bren at two commercial events with the identical score of 3–4, finishing in second place at the Snapdragon Pro Series S5 and 1xBet Supernova. By fall, they had completely lost their form, slipping to 5th–6th place in the MPL without a slot for the M6 World Championship.

The Indonesian roster, on the other hand, underwent a major overhaul immediately after returning from Riyadh. Of the original roster, only Aran and Yehezkiel remained in the “starting lineup,” joined by three young players from the academy: Favian “Faviannn” Putra, Sultan “AeronnShikii” Muhammad, and Christian “Widy” Fartono.

The strategy of combining experience with young talent paid off: in October, Team Liquid ID won the MPL Indonesia Season 14 regional league, finishing ahead of the powerhouse Fnatic ONIC and other top teams. In the final against RRQ Hoshi, the “Riders” staged a comeback from a 2-3 deficit, after which both teams headed to the M6 World Championship in Kuala Lumpur.

The season’s main tournament took place in December: Liquid ID didn’t get off to the best start and subsequently fell out of the favorites’ circle. The team finished the Swiss stage with a 3–2 record, losing to Team Spirit and the Filipino squad Fnatic ONIC. However, in the playoffs, Liquid managed to find their form—they took revenge on Spirit, knocked RRQ Hoshi into the lower bracket, and soundly defeated SRG (3-0).

But against the top-seeded Fnatic ONIC PH, Liquid didn’t stand a chance. Aran’s team suffered two more losses, managing to win only a single map in each match—1-3 in the upper bracket final and 1-4 in the grand final. Nevertheless, for a young team, second place at M6 was an excellent result—one they were unable to replicate at other top tournaments.

The M6 final proved to be a step too far for the Indonesian squad. Ahead of the new season, goldlaner Kabuki was replaced by Riski Kyou, another academy graduate, while the main roster remained unchanged—but the world’s second-ranked team had a disastrous season in its home region. Liquid ID barely made it into the MPL Indonesia Season 15 playoffs from sixth place with a 9–7 record, only to be eliminated in the very first round.

Kabuki returned before the summer season, but it didn’t help. In the fall season, Liquid finished in last place—ninth—in the MPL Indonesia, winning only 4 of 16 regular-season matches. The team had not competed in any other tournaments since February, and as a result, it became virtually invisible to the general public—especially against the backdrop of their Filipino counterparts’ successes.

Although Team Liquid PH performed poorly in the second half of the 2024 season, it also made only one substitution (incidentally, also on the gold lane). Bennyqt left the starting roster, and his spot was taken by Kil “OHEB” Soriano, an M3 champion and M4 finalist with Blacklist. As 2025 showed, this decision by management proved to be the right one.

In the spring, the team won MPL Philippines Season 15, and two months later, they brought the organization its first international trophy. At the MLBB Mid Season Cup 2025, the “Riders” were in a league of their own: throughout the entire tournament, Liquid PH lost only three maps, crushing Malaysia’s SRG.OG 4-1 in the grand final. 

In October, the team won its second consecutive MPL Philippines season, after which it was the clear favorite for M7. “Liquid” suffered only one setback in the group stage (a 1-2 loss to SRG), but looked extremely strong, with Sanford and Sanji each claiming two MVP awards. ONIC’s collapse made things easier, but even so, Team Liquid fell far short of the title: in the upper bracket, they suffered a shocking loss to Turkey’s Aurora, and then faced a surging Alter Ego. As a result, they finished in fourth place and took home $60,000 in prize money.

Ahead of the current season, the club once again made changes to both rosters. The Philippine team was forced to reshuffle after Oheb went inactive: he was replaced by 20-year-old Dave “Teddyqt” Viana from the junior team. Kim “Dai Ki” Sebanes was also promoted to the main roster, and Ong Wei “Aeon” Shen was appointed as the new head coach.

The Indonesian team faced even more significant changes. Following a disastrous season, Faviannn and Kabuki went inactive, while Yehezkiel and Widy decided to continue their careers with other teams in the region. In addition, veteran coach Doli “SaintDeLucaz” Siotang left the team—as a result, the new roster had to be assembled from young players and academy members.

Despite this, Team Liquid ID managed to finish fourth in MPL Indonesia Season 17, which can be considered a success for such a roster. Meanwhile, Team Liquid PH—even with a rookie on the gold lane—won the region’s strongest league and qualified for the 2026 Mid-Season Cup in Paris, where they were considered the clear favorites.

In reality, however, the MSC turned out to be the biggest failure in the history of the Philippine scene for Team Liquid. At the MSC, the star-studded roster lost to Turkey’s Aurora Gaming and South America’s Entity7, ultimately finishing in 13th–16th place without a single win. Nevertheless, by the second half of the season, the team had managed to bounce back and once again ranked among the world’s best in terms of gameplay.

In March 2025, the Western multigaming organization also launched a women’s MLBB roster, which included players from the Super Monching team. The roster featured Ventanilla Allison “Daiki” Cruz, Zaira “Zaishii” Gilhang, Clarice Nicole “CLA” Córdoba, Kila “Soju” Ramos, and Trinity Christina Reyes “Ramici” Ramos, who compete under the name Team Liquid Aqua.

A month and a half later, the team took second place at Athena League Season 1, earning a spot in the 2025 MLBB Women’s Invitational World Championship. At the global tournament in Riyadh, the team confidently won three matches in a row, but then faced the star-studded Vitality in the semifinals and lost decisively (0–3). Liquid Aqua also lost the third-place match—0–3 against Terror Queens.

In 2026, Liquid missed the main championship. Now, only one team from the Philippines was competing at the MWI, but even under the previous rules, Team Liquid would have been left out of the global event: at the Athena Cup Season 2, they finished only third, losing to the women’s teams NAVI and Falcons. 

As of September 2026, the renowned multi-gaming organization has five MLBB rosters: the main teams Team Liquid ID and Team Liquid PH, their academies, and the women’s roster Liquid Aqua.

Over the course of two years in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, Team Liquid won the 2025 MLBB Mid Season Cup international tournament, as well as five MPL regional league seasons (four in the Philippines and one in Indonesia). Liquid ID also took second place at the M6 World Championship, and Liquid PH finished in the top 4 at M7 in early 2026.

In total, the club’s teams have won $1,990,885 in prize money. Most of this amount comes from Team Liquid PH, which earned $1,000,000 for winning the MSC 2025, as well as $200,000 for finishing in 3rd–4th place at the MSC 2024.