With the 2025 esports season coming to an end, top-tier events in some of the biggest games were held in October 2025. The biggest tournament to be livestreamed last month was the 2025 League of Legends World Championship, and its influence was seen in the YouTube Gaming rankings below. Two of the most prominent regional MLBB leagues, the top domestic circuit in AoV, and a record-breaking premier stage in competitive CS also made their presence felt.
Among streamers, Brazilian superstars Alexandre "Gaules" Borba and Gustavo"Baiano" Gomes topped the charts thanks to their coverage of the 2025 LoL Worlds, with one American social media personality, Caylus "CaylusBlox" Cunningham, maintaining his top-two run on the peak concurrent viewers charts for the second straight month thanks to his Roblox content.
Top YouTube Gaming organization channels, October 2025
The official MPL Indonesia channel ended the month as the most-watched, hitting 10.78 million Hours Watched (HW). With the latest season wrapping up and qualification for the M7 World Championship at stake, the matches attracted enough attention to see this English-language channel enjoy a spike of 22% in its monthly watch time.
Two more MLBB channels made this top ten, including Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Indonesia, the official Indonesian channel for the game's most popular regional circuit. Joining it was the official English-language channel of the other top domestic MLBB league, MPL Philippines, which witnessed a jump of 104% in its month-on-month watch time after putting up just over 4 million HW in October 2025.
MLBB's rival game, LoL, had four entries on this leaderboard, including two out of the top three. The official LCK channel was the only other channel to pass the 10 million HW mark, an increment of 14% in its MoM watch time. The official English-language channel, LoL Esports, came in third and was joined by the corresponding Vietnamese and Taiwanese channels.
Battlegrounds Mobile India continued its recent resurgence, settling in the fourth spot via the KRAFTON INDIA ESPORTS channel. It accrued 6.46 million HW via coverage of the Battlegrounds Mobile India Showdown 2025 and the Battlegrounds Mobile India International Cup 2025.
ESL Counter-Strike, which covered the ESL Pro League Season 22, finished as the ninth-most-watched YouTube Gaming organization channel last month. Last but not least was the official Liên Quân Mobile eSports-Garena channel that livestreamed matches of the Arena of Glory Winter 2025, Vietnam's top AoV league.
A lot of the entries that made the watch hours list also finished in the top ten table for peak concurrent viewers. They were joined by Nintendo 公式チャンネ, the Japanese multinational video game company's official channel. It touched 281,523 Peak Viewers (PV) during an October 23 presentation that revealed new details about the upcoming game, Kirby Air Rider.
The other fresh entry was the official Brawl Stars channel, which attracted 229,473 PV during a much-hyped reveal livestream. This presentation discussed the game's upcoming collaboration with the hit Netflix supernatural horror series, Stranger Things, which will bring new game modes, skins, brawlers and quests.
Top YouTube Gaming streamers, October 2025
When looking at the top YouTube Gaming content creators by HW last month, the top name to emerge was Gaules. The iconic Brazilian, now a bona fide esports broadcaster, covered competitions on titles like Counter-Strike 2 and League of Legends, apart from playing new releases like Battlefield 6 and Arc Raiders, making him the only entry with over 5 million watch hours in October 2025.
Star Indonesian MLBB creator Ade "set1awanade" Setiawan Pamungkas came in second, with most of his streams focused on the recently-concluded MPL Indonesia Season 16. CaylusBlox backed up his second-place finish in the September rankings by clinching the final podium spot, with his decision to stick to Roblox livestreams aiding with his monthly watch time rise by 24%.
Two prominent LoL casters in their respective languages rounded off the top five, led by Baiano, another highly popular Brazilian who keenly followed the ongoing 2025 LoL Worlds last month. He was followed by Hoàng Luân, one of the most renowned Vietnamese League of Legends creators.
Four Japanese streamers, including three prominent Virtual YouTubers (VTubers), take up the next four positions, with their content mainly revolving around Grand Theft Auto V's Mad Town roleplaying server. They were joined by Indian YouTuber Yash "LoLzZz Gaming" Thacker, a regular on these lists whose content focuses on the popular mobile battle royale shooter, Battlegrounds Mobile India.
The list of most popular YouTube Gaming streamers in October 2025 includes names like Abraham "ElAbrahaham" Flores, the highest-ranked streamer from the Hispanic community. There's also Forrest "KreekCraft" Waldron, who was also not as active as he was in September, but still saw one of his livestreams last month notch 188,615 PV.
YouTube megastar Darren "IShowSpeed" Watkins Jr was the topper this month, despite barely streaming in the Gaming segment. One of his few video gaming livestreams, from October 26 — where he played a Fortnite influencer event and chatted with his fans — drew 313K PV.
There were also prominent names like Rivaldi "R7 Tatsumaki" Fatah and Koyori ch., with the latter keeping VTubers in the spotlight with her variety gaming streams. We must also mention Delwyn Sukamto, the CEO and Founder of Alter Ego Esports, who continued his run in these rankings after first appearing in the September leaderboard.
