Lina for the win, the ubiquitous Treant and 8% of victories for Viper - analysis of the Esports World Cup 2026 meta from

On July 19, the Esports World Cup 2026 ended, the champion of which was PARIVISION. The editors analyzed the tournament meta. Statistics taken from the portal ru.spectral.gg from Ilya 'Leamare' Silakov.

PARIVISION became the champion of the Esports World Cup 2026. During the tournament, the team played 19 matches with a win rate of 84%. The KDA indicators of Vladimir ' No[o]ne ' Minenko's team are twice as high as the tournament average. At the same time, the duration of matches for the championship winner is shorter than for most participants in the competition.

PARIVISION also made fewer stacks, placed less Observer Ward, and broke them less often than the tournament average.

Kerry GamerLegion Daniel 'Ghost' Chan Kok Hon set three records at once in the match against Power Rangers - the esportsman, playing on Nature's Prophet, made the most kills and achieved the highest GPM and XPM in the Esports World Cup 2026. In addition, the player has the highest number of kills on average.

The widest pool of heroes among the teams at the tournament was demonstrated by Vici Gaming - 45, and among the players - Ilya 'Yatoro' Mulyarchuk. The winner of the tournament, PARIVISION, had the lowest number of deaths on average - this applies both to the team as a whole and to its player Evgeniy 'Notified' Ignatenko.

The most popular hero at the Esports World Cup 2026 was Treant Protector - he appeared in 98% of all drafts. At the same time, the character was among the most successful heroes of the competition. Besides him, the most popular heroes were Lone Druid and Shadow Fiend.

The most successful character was Lina - she was picked 18 times and won 77.78% of those matches. In addition to it, the top 3 for this indicator included Slardar and Nature's Prophet.

Shadow Fiend turned out to be the most popular hero in the first position at the Esports World Cup 2026, and Earth Spirit was most often chosen among the mid laners. Hoodwink is not the first Tier 1 tournament to lead in demand among the “fours”.

During the tournament, the forces of Darkness significantly surpassed the forces of Light in terms of the share of victories. There are fewer completely unclaimed heroes than at previous tournaments - only 12 characters. The least successful hero in the competition was Viper, with a win rate of 8.33% over 12 games.

Esports World Cup 2026 for Dota 2 was held from July 7 to July 19 in LAN format in Paris, France. Twenty-four teams competed for a prize pool of $2,000,000.