Top esports community casters of 2025

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In 2025, community casting continued to grow from strength to strength, with many events seeing individual streamers outshine the official broadcasts. As more and more content creators embrace the chaos of esports livestreaming, the space is set to become bigger and better in the upcoming season.

This ranking breaks down the top co-casters of the year by total Hours Watched, highlighting the creators who sustained audience attention across months of broadcasts rather than relying on isolated spikes.

Most-watched esports community casters of 2025

Starting this top-ten list is Tarik "tarik" Celik, who retained his place as the most-watched Valorant streamer in 2025. The former pro may have been less active compared to 2024, but he still crossed the 20 million HW mark. In addition to community casting major tournaments, the Sentinels creator was heavily involved with the organization, hosting and commentating on its tournaments and showmatches.

Arguably, the biggest Russian-speaking Counter-Strike 2 commentator, Igor "SL4M" Sopov, finds a place on the list. His broadcasts of largest tournaments across iconic FPS titles, including second Major, generated around 23.8 million Hours Watched. Despite streaming only one game, multistreaming across the three largest platforms played a key role in driving his high numbers, with Twitch standing out as the primary destination for his audience.

Another Russian-speaking creator, Roman "ramzes" Kushnarev, topped the Dota 2 list, having achieved 22.7 million HW through his coverage. The former pro player, one of the most successful in the game's history, is currently an ambassador for Team Yandex. The 26-year-old also broadcast many influencer-led events, although it was his co-casting of prominent competitions like The International 2025 that ended among the most popular streams on his Twitch channel.

In 2025, Lee “울프” Jae-wan led CHZZK as the platform’s top esports co-caster. Most of his coverage was for the top League of Legends events, although he also gave time to the Masters Toronto 2025, one of Valorant's top-tier tournaments. Also familiar to his fans as Wolf, he emerged as the Korean platform's most popular streamer last year, with his livestream of the 2025 World Championship finals between T1 and KT Rolster attracting 246,701 Peak Viewers (PV), a personal channel record.

Kim "김민교." Min-kyo takes the top spot among SOOP Korea influencers, having emerged as one of Korea and Asia's top co-casters. Throughout 2025, he covered most major League of Legends tournaments, including the LCK season and the LoL World Championship. Under the name phonics1, he also broadcast leading Valorant events, such as VCT Pacific Stage 1 and Masters Toronto.

One of the biggest esports titles in 2025, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, was bound to have a few community streamers who put in the hours covering its various events. The top name was Ade "set1awanade" Pamungkas, the only mobile gaming representative here. The Indonesian YouTube megastar livestreamed multiple competitions, both regional and global, to accumulate just over 30 million HW.

Gustavo "Baiano" Gomes and Mark "ohnepixel" Zimmermann have emerged as among the top names for their respective games over the past few years. The Brazilian star is best known for his BaianoTV channels, which primarily stream League of Legends, particularly matches featuring the country’s top teams, cementing his status as one of Brazil’s leading esports creators.

Meanwhile, ohnepixel has steadily climbed the ranks over the past few years to become one of Twitch's 100 most-watched streamers. Thanks to the variety of his content, he ranked among the top creators across multiple titles in 2025 and finished the year as one of Germany’s top three streamers by watch time.

The second name here is the unstoppable force that is Brazilian icon Alexandre "Gaules" Borba, who now multistreams across the big three of YouTube, Kick and Twitch. The former professional Counter-Strike 2 player and coach is easily the game's biggest creator.

His biggest title remained the legendary Valve shooter, especially the games played by teams from his homeland. In fact, a lot of livestreams of the StarLadder Budapest Major 2025 ended among his Kick channel's most popular broadcasts. The YouTuber and philanthropist also ensured to cover matches of Brazilian sides playing in major tournaments across games like Rainbow 6 and Valorant.

It will come as less of a surprise that the top esports co-caster by watch time across livestreaming in 2025 was Marc "Caedrel" Lamont. The British coach and analyst has enjoyed a massive upturn in his fame over the last two years, and 2025 has only reinforced his reputation as one of the premier names among LoL fans.

Last year, he was most followed by the fans of Los Ratones, an esports organization that Caedrel founded in 2024. The side became something of an anomaly, attracting high viewership to the Northern League of Legends Championship, a regional league that wasn't known to pull in more than a few thousand viewers, and consistently finishing among the most popular teams at any tournament.

Top esports community casters of 2025 by watch time