In 2025, Ukrainian esports athletes earned millions of dollars in tournaments, taking high places in competitions in Counter-Strike, Dota 2, PUBG: Battlegrounds and other titles. The analytical service Esports Charts presented a rating of the most successful Ukrainian esports athletes by the number of prize money won per season.
In 2025, Ukrainian esports athletes earned millions of dollars in tournaments, taking high places in competitions in Counter-Strike, Dota 2, PUBG: Battlegrounds and other titles. The analytical service Esports Charts presented a rating of the most successful Ukrainian esports athletes by the number of prize money won per season.
The rating does not include Ukrainian esports players who played in teams with Russian players in 2025. Also, the amounts only take into account shares of the teams' total prize money. Without salaries, tax deductions, club deductions, coaches, analysts, etc.
The most successful Ukrainian esports players in 2025 were Valeriy «b1t» Vakhovsky and Igor «w0nderful» Zhdanov, who played for the Natus Vincere Counter-Strike team. Each of them earned $139,400 per year.
Anton «Feyerist» Dutchak, Vitaly «Hakatory» Shaida, and Sergey «SoseD» Zubkov, players of Natus Vincere from PUBG: Battlegrounds, each earned $61,700.
Natus Vincere’s Dota 2 players also had a strong season. At the end of the year , Artem «Niku» Bachkur, Taras «gotthejuice» Linnikov, Yuriy «pma» Prots, and Stanislav «Riddys» Mitroshkin each earned $59,300.
Dmytro «Dem0n» Miroshnychenko and Nikita «cmtry» Samolyotov, two former Natus Vincere Junior Counter-Strike players who joined the Turkish team FUT Esports, had a very successful season. They each earned $53,000 in 2025.
Five players from Counter-Strike’s B8 Esports team are in the middle of the ranking. By the way, this is the only team consisting entirely of Ukrainian esports players. While competing in tournaments in 2025, Andriy «npl» Kukharsky, Dmytro «esenthial» Tsvir, Danylo «headtr1ck» Valitov, and Oleksiy «alex666» Yarmoshchuk each earned $51,500. Their teammate Artem «kensizor» Kapran received slightly less, as he missed the CS Asia Championships 2025 due to visa issues.
Ukrainian legionnaire Artem «R1nkle» Moroz, who plays for the Scandinavian team Ninjas in Pyjamas, earned over $44,200.
Three PUBG Mobile players made it to the top of the most successful Ukrainian esports players of 2025: Andriy «TULIKA» Tulika, Kirill «LEMON» Chepelenko, and Mykhailo «FLIP» Kislenko. They had a good season as part of MadBulls, with TULIKA slightly higher in the ranking, as before joining MadBulls, he managed to earn some prize money while playing for Bars Gaming.
Ukrainian Viktor «SDY» Orudzhev, who plays for ENCE, has earned over $31,000 in Counter-Strike tournaments.
