ONIC PH starts 2025 as champions in ESL Snapdragon Pro Series
Riding high on its title as World Champions last year, ONIC Philippines dominated the Snapdragon Pro Series Season 6 APAC—Challenge Finals, sweeping its Indonesian counterpart, ONIC Indonesia, 4-0.
Starting 2025 as champions, this solidified ONIC PH’s streak of trophies after winning MPL PH Season 14 and the M6 World Championship.
This win earned ONIC PH a slot in Indonesia for the final event of the Snapdragon Pro Series Year 3 for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, joining Team Falcons PH as the representatives of the Philippines.
ONIC PH set the tone early, securing commanding victories in the first two games, both lasting under 13 minutes, while limiting ONIC ID to fewer than four kills per match.
An MVP-like performance for gold laner Duane “Kelra” Pillas was showcased after using Granger in the first two games, only dying once.
Game three was supposed to be ONIC Indonesia’s game; however, during the 13-minute mark, Kelra’s opening kill against Nicky “Kiboy” Pontonuwu during a Lord skirmish opened the floodgates and gave Kelra a Maniac using the Harith, getting a 3-0 lead.
ONIC PH overwhelmed their opponents in the last game, dropping only two deaths while ending just after 10 minutes, ultimately securing the trophy yet again.
ONIC PH only dropped one series in the group stages after Team Liquid ID’s 2-0 steamrolled and topped group A.
However, ONIC PH qualified and displayed an almost picture-perfect playoff stage performance after only losing one game against RRQ Hoshi in a reverse sweep 2-1.
After defeating fellow Philippine Team Falcons, 2-0, the team bested Team Liquid ID in the upper finals with no letdown, 3-0, kicking them to the lower finals.
A rematch of the M6 World Championship was denied after Team Liquid ID could not manage to defeat ONIC Indonesia, narrowly losing 2-3, putting an ONIC versus ONIC in the grand finals stage.
ONIC Philippines started its campaign on MPH-PH Season 15 in third place, finishing behind Team Liquid PH and Aurora.
READ: Aurora, Team Liquid PH sweep Week 1 of MPL Season 15
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