This Week in Dota 2: GamerLegion and Yuma shine at EPL Masters 2026

Another busy week in Dota 2 is over. Most of the action was at EPL Masters 2026, where OG, LEGION, GamerLegion and Natus Vincere played some wild games. Here are the biggest stories, starting with the best series.

What happened at EPL Masters 2026 this week?

GamerLegion looked strong early in the event, but Natus Vincere stopped them. Natus Vincere won the best-of-5 series 3–1 on 2026-11-05.

GamerLegion came into the series on a long winning run. Game 3 was a full crush: Natus Vincere got 44 kills and a 35,124 gold lead. Gotthejuice had 33 kills in the series, the most of all players. Read the full story: Natus Vincere beat GamerLegion 3–1.

Before that, GamerLegion beat HULIGANI 2–0 on 2026-11-04. Game 2 was a long fight of 58:57, and GamerLegion led by 34,522 gold at the end. Yuma had 20 kills there, the most in the series. See GamerLegion vs HULIGANI for the details.

Who was the Player of the Week and the Match of the Week?

Yuma from GamerLegion is our Player of the Week with an MVP score of 1067. The Match of the Week was OG vs LEGION, which OG won 2–1 on 2026-11-03.

Yuma played 15 games at EPL Masters 2026 and won 9. His best game was a 17/3/10 Sven against HULIGANI on 2026-11-04. His teammates RCY (1053) and Fayde (896) came close. More here: Player of the Week: Yuma.

In OG vs LEGION, LEGION came back from 14,170 gold behind at minute 32 and won game 2 in 41:32. OG still took the series, thanks to a game 3 with 50 kills. SSS went 15/0/23 on Pangolier in that game. Read the full Match of the Week.

Why did BetBoom Team players move to Inactive?

The biggest transfer news involves a top team. On 2026-11-02, Liquipedia moved all five BetBoom Team players to the Inactive team: Kiritych, Save-, MieRo, swedenstrong and Kataomi. The list covers 5 moves from 2026-10-28 to 2026-11-04.

The other 4 moves were PlayTime, IC x Insanity and one coach, ArtStyle. See all transfers of the week.

When does patch 7.42 come out?

Valve has not said anything about patch 7.42, but the numbers say a lot. It has been 224 days since patch 7.41. The average wait between big patches is 149 days.

On November 19, this becomes the longest wait since 2023.

Our model gives a 64% chance for November and 28% for December, so 92% in total. Valve also tested a new client build on the staging server on September 11. Here is what 7.42 will likely change. Until then, the pro scene plays on patch 7.41f, where Dark Willow is the most picked hero with 38 picks and 55% wins. Check the Pro Meta Report for more.