Dota 2 record
Longest career
Sneyking (Wu Jingjun) has played since Jun 25, 2012 and is still on a roster — 3,098 maps in that time. Second place is shared by Cr1t-, Bignum and Ace at 13.9 years each, which puts the leader 133 days ahead.
- sample
- from the first map in our data to the last
Dota 2 record “Longest career”: 14.3 years on the pro scene. Sneyking (Wu Jingjun) has played since Jun 25, 2012 and is still on a roster — 3,098 maps in that time. Second place is shared by Cr1t-, Bignum and Ace at 13.9 years each, which puts the leader 133 days ahead. Among 65 players of this season’s teams; sample: from the first map in our data to the last. Sqady, https://sqady.com/dota2/records/longest-career/
top 20 players by career length
from the first map in our data to the last
This table by player country (by citizenship):
- China — 5 players; median — 12.3 years; highest — fy, 5th place.
- Philippines — 3 players; median — 12.3 years; highest — TIMS, 12th place.
- Denmark — 2 players; highest — Ace and Cr1t-, 2nd place (shared by 3).
- Ukraine — 2 players; highest — Bignum, 2nd place (shared by 3).
- Indonesia — 1 player: Jhocam, 17th place (shared by 2).
- Lebanon — 1 player: GH, 11th place.
- Malaysia — 1 player: xNova, 6th place.
- North Macedonia — 1 player: Saksa, 9th place (shared by 2).
- Pakistan — 1 player: SumaiL, 9th place (shared by 2).
- Slovakia — 1 player: skiter, 15th place.
- Sweden — 1 player: Boxi, 20th place.
- United States — 1 player: Sneyking, 1st place.
A career runs from a player’s first map to the last. Breaks in the middle are not subtracted: the figure is “from the first map to the last”, not “years in the game”.
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Sneyking’s lead is narrow for a record of this length. He played his first map on June 25, 2012, and Cr1t-, Ace and Bignum, who share second place, all started within five months of him.
Two of the four longest careers belong to Team Falcons teammates, Sneyking and Cr1t-, who were also part of the five that holds the longest-lineup record.
OG and Yakult Brothers each had three players of their season rosters in the top 20. OG’s three, TIMS, Raven and skem, are all from the Philippines, which gives that country a median of 12.3 years, level with China, though TIMS and Raven left OG on September 9, 2026; Yakult’s three, kaka, 天命 and Beyond, are all from China.