March 2026 MOBA competitive digest

March paired a commanding month-long results lead with three distinct $300,000 peaks at the largest open-worldwide competitions and an active high-fee transfer market.

The month

March was defined by the tension between sustained volume and sharp event peaks. NEC | RoyalT1 🇸🇬 built the strongest aggregate case, recording $2,453,600 in winnings, 91 championships, 102 podiums and a 500-71 record across 635 appearances. AVNG | Rez0x was the closest challenger on the same measures, with $1,975,500, 85 championships and a 438-92 record.

That aggregate advantage did not translate into ownership of every major moment. Different rosters produced the largest payouts at each of the month’s three $692,000 open-worldwide events, leaving a meaningful distinction between leading the full calendar and delivering its sharpest individual performances. The result was a month with a clear volume leader but a genuinely debatable first choice.

Competitions and leagues

The three largest competitions created three separate peaks. At MOBA Masters 14, NEC | Deva Academy paired $300,000 with eight wins and no losses. BaekZero - LMS then recorded $300,000 and a 7-0 run at MOBA Masters 15, before AVNG | RAVENA closed the sequence with $300,000 and an 8-0 record at MOBA Masters 16.

The $435,000 EMEA league sequence rewarded repeat performance. NEC | Deva Academy earned $200,000 at both MOBA EMEA League S9.1 and MOBA EMEA League S9.4. AVNG | Rez0x earned $200,000 at MOBA EMEA League S9.2 and $120,000 at MOBA EMEA League S9.3, while NEC | RoyalT1 🇸🇬 progressed from $120,000 in the second event to $200,000 in the third before taking $72,000 in the fourth.

Those four league competitions list EMEA residency eligibility but no competition point region. MOBA EMEA Zenith Invitational Tier 1 #255 records the distinction explicitly, listing EMEA residency separately from its EMEA point circuit region and competition point claims.

Best rosters

Rating evidence is unavailable, so it cannot decide this order. My first choice is NEC | RoyalT1 🇸🇬 because its advantages in winnings, championships, wins and losses form the broadest supported case across the month. AVNG | Rez0x is the closest aggregate alternative, while 🇵🇭| Vortex Raijin |QEA adds a strong 423-73 record and the deepest recorded playoff run of the four at seven.

NEC | Deva Academy makes the strongest peak-performance counterargument. Its perfect $300,000 run in MOBA Masters 14 and two separate $200,000 league results give managers a credible reason to value concentrated impact over aggregate volume. How should managers weigh NEC | RoyalT1 🇸🇬‘s month-long volume against NEC | Deva Academy’s event peaks when choosing first place?

Notable transfers

GH|Tian opened March with a $1,700,000 move into NEC | RoyalT1 🇸🇬. Two days later, Zilla|BOUNE produced the month’s largest recorded fee at $2,990,000. Activity around the results-leading club continued when GH|Zerilaa moved into it for $2,300,000 on March 15 and Royal|Machina moved away for $1,800,000 on March 19.

The evidence establishes the fees, dates and directions of these transfers, but not their effect on results or current membership.

MOBA GOAT debate

My first place moves to NEC | RoyalT1 🇸🇬. January supplied $2,355,100, 90 championships, a 442-61 record and three successive regional league titles. February added 73 championships and a 411-54 line, while March brings the strongest aggregate case at $2,453,600, 91 championships, 102 podiums and 500 wins against 71 losses. Across January through March that is 254 championships and a 1,353-186 record. With no common rating or cross-month point measure to settle the order, three consecutive elite months combining volume and efficiency form the strongest supported case.

The strongest alternative is NEC| 100ENTITIEZ. February gave it $2,327,900, 86 championships, 409 wins from 558 appearances and a decisive worldwide title, while its earlier record carries consecutive unbeaten victories on the richest stages. March supplies no new result for it, which is unknown rather than evidence of decline, but it leaves the record unable to test that peak against the sustained conversion of my first choice.

🇵🇭| Vortex Raijin |QEA also strengthens an older case by returning in March with a 423-73 record and the deepest recorded playoff run among the leading four. Its earlier June through August sequence produced $5,961,082 and unbeaten $300,000 victories at the richest event in both July and August. March does not provide enough additional aggregate detail to place that renewed form above the three-month run of my first choice, but it makes the historical peak relevant again.

The longer standards remain unresolved. 404… still owns the accumulation benchmark through $10,312,091 and 391 championships across five uninterrupted months, while PHI | Orangutan Ganji retains the unmatched peak of five unbeaten $300,000 worldwide wins across four months. Neither receives a new supported March result, so neither absence should be treated as decline.

What should managers require to change first place in April: another month near the 500-71 pace of NEC | RoyalT1 🇸🇬, a return by NEC| 100ENTITIEZ that combines worldwide success with full-month volume, or another richest-stage victory from 🇵🇭| Vortex Raijin |QEA?