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Esports organization Natus Vincere, known worldwide as NAVI, has spent the past 18 months turning itself into one of the more unusual names in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) esports. A club built on Counter-Strike and Dota 2 pedigree now fields rosters tied to Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia - three of the biggest markets for the mobile MOBA in the world. GG.BET, the esports betting operator that has served as NAVI's title partner since 2021, is a visible part of that story: its logo travels with NAVI into every discipline the club competes in, Mobile Legends included. But the two brands' roles are distinct - GG.BET has not announced any partnership specific to NAVI's Mobile Legends rosters, and there is no confirmed sponsorship activity from GG.BET targeting Indonesia, the Philippines or Malaysia tied to these teams specifically.
What Is the Current GG.BET and NAVI Partnership?
GG.BET became NAVI's title partner in 2021, a status the two organizations have renewed and expanded since, including a confirmed extension covering 2024. Under this arrangement, GG.BET branding appears on the front and back of NAVI player jerseys and on the backdrops of NAVI's broadcasts, and the two organizations have run joint offline activations including fan meet-and-greets and showmatches in past years.
Importantly, this is a club-wide partnership rather than a game-specific one - the same status covering NAVI's Counter-Strike, Dota 2 and other rosters. There is no dedicated announcement tying GG.BET directly to NAVI's Mobile Legends operation, and NAVI has previously and explicitly pushed back on claims that GG.BET has any ownership stake in the club. The accurate framing is that GG.BET-backed NAVI operates Mobile Legends teams connected to Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia, not that GG.BET sponsors those specific rosters.
How NAVI Entered Mobile Legends in Indonesia
NAVI's move into MLBB came in February 2025, when the organization acquired Indonesian club Rebellion Esports and, with it, a franchise slot in MPL Indonesia (MPL ID), the country's top professional league. Rebellion had competed in MPL ID since 2021 but had struggled competitively, finishing at or near the bottom of the standings in recent seasons. NAVI's chief operations officer told Esports Insider the club weighed buying a franchise slot directly from developer MOONTON against acquiring an existing organization with local knowledge already in place, and chose the latter, citing the value of Rebellion's regional expertise. Jonathan Yuwono, Rebellion's founder, stayed on in a leadership capacity within NAVI's Mobile Legends operation.
Results have been difficult. In the team's first season, MPL ID Season 15 (2025), NAVI went winless across the regular season. The roster was overhauled ahead of Season 16 (August-October 2025) but was again eliminated at the play-in stage. For Season 17 (March-June 2026), NAVI brought in a more international lineup, including Filipino players Andoryuuu and uK1r alongside Indonesian talent, under head coach YnoT - despite the changes, NAVI again finished outside the top six and did not reach the playoffs; Bigetron by Vitality won the title, defeating ONIC Esports in the grand final. NAVI's academy side, NAVI Junior, has had a similarly uneven run in MDL Indonesia, finishing 9th-11th in one recent season and 12th in Season 13 (2026), missing the playoffs on both occasions.
NAVI PH and the Philippines Mobile Legends Scene
NAVI does not field a team in the men's MPL Philippines league. "NAVI PH" refers instead to the organization's women's MLBB roster, acquired in May 2025 from Smart Omega Empress - the team that had won the MLBB Women's Invitational (MWI) in 2024. NAVI's presence in the Philippines' MLBB scene runs through the women's competitive circuit, not the flagship men's league where teams like Team Liquid PH and ONIC Philippines compete.
NAVI PH has performed strongly under NAVI's banner. In May 2026 the roster won Athena Cup Season 2, the Philippines' women's MLBB qualifier, beating Falcons Vega PH 4-0 in the grand final to secure a spot at MWI 2026, then went on to win the PLDT Home-powered Athena Cup outright. At MWI 2026, held in Paris as part of the Esports World Cup (July 14-18, 2026), NAVI PH lost its opening match to Cambodia's Galaxy Phoenix 0-2 but recovered through the lower bracket, defeating Falcon Daisies (Myanmar) 2-1 and Gen.G 2-0 to reach the knockout stage, then swept Malaysia's Team Rey Young 2-0 in the quarterfinals to advance to the semifinals - improving to 3-1 in the tournament. As of publication, NAVI PH was scheduled to face Galaxy Phoenix again in the semifinal on July 17, a rematch of their opening loss, with the result not yet known at the time of writing.
NAVI MY and Mobile Legends in Malaysia
NAVI's Malaysian presence in MLBB is also a women's roster: "NAVI MY," acquired at the same time as NAVI PH in May 2025 from HomeBois Arcane (Arcane Ladies), a squad that had already qualified for MWI 2025 through the Malaysia and Singapore regional qualifier. NAVI MY's most recent notable run came in the MLBB Ladies International Invitational in May 2026, a Malaysian qualifier offering a slot at the Esports World Cup - the roster did not secure that berth for the 2026 cycle, eliminated in the regional qualifying process by Team Rey Young, the same Malaysian roster NAVI PH would go on to defeat at MWI 2026 itself. No further confirmed results or roster announcements for NAVI MY were found beyond this qualifier at the time of writing.
Why Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia Matter
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is, by a wide margin, the dominant esport across large parts of Southeast Asia. MPL Indonesia routinely draws multi-million concurrent viewership for its grand finals - Season 17's decider peaked at nearly 3 million concurrent viewers - and the league's advertising-equivalent media value runs into the millions of dollars per season. The Philippines has produced some of MLBB's most successful international rosters, with Philippine teams winning the majority of MLBB World Championship (M-Series) titles to date, and the country's MPL final regularly draws large live crowds, including a recent record gate at Cuneta Astrodome in Pasay City. Malaysia has hosted multiple M-Series World Championships and remains a key hub for the game's competitive infrastructure in the region.
What the Southeast Asian Expansion Means for GG.BET
NAVI's growing footprint in Mobile Legends gives GG.BET's branding exposure to some of the largest and fastest-growing esports audiences anywhere, simply by virtue of appearing on the jerseys and streams of an organization now competing in three additional national scenes - a plausible marketing upside for a title partner with a broad, club-wide deal. What is not confirmed is any GG.BET activity, promotions, local licensing, or content, built specifically around NAVI's Indonesian, Filipino or Malaysian MLBB rosters. Readers should treat NAVI's Southeast Asian expansion and GG.BET's title partnership as two separate facts that happen to intersect through the same organization, rather than as a joint regional campaign.
Final Assessment
NAVI's move into Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is a genuine, multi-market bet on Southeast Asia - Indonesia through the Rebellion Esports acquisition, the Philippines and Malaysia through women's roster buyouts. The results have been split: on the men's side in Indonesia, NAVI has yet to find real competitive traction across three MPL seasons, while on the women's side, NAVI PH has been the clear success story, twice winning the Philippines' Athena Cup and sitting in the final four of the sport's top international women's event. For GG.BET, the value of this expansion is straightforward exposure rather than a documented regional campaign - its branding rides along with every roster the club fields, Mobile Legends included, into some of the most-watched esports markets in the world.
