Fumi and Team Vitality have completed another championship run at the MLBB Women’s Invitational, defeating NAVI 4-2 in the 2026 Esports World Cup Grand Final in Paris to successfully defend the title they won a year earlier.

For EXP laner Venny «Fumi» Lim, the result adds another major trophy to a career that was never originally planned around professional competition.

The Indonesian player first discovered Mobile Legends: Bang Bang through her younger sister in 2020. What started as casual interest eventually developed into a competitive career, taking her through GPX Basreng and Bigetron Era before the latter’s roster was acquired by Team Vitality in May 2024.

Vitality retained the core of Fumi, Vival, Cinny, Chell and Vivian, giving an already established lineup the opportunity to continue competing together under one of Europe’s largest esports organizations.

An established roster delivers another international title

Team Vitality entered MWI 2026 as the defending champion and once again reached the deciding series. NAVI provided the final opposition, but Vitality closed the best-of-seven 4-2 to secure its second consecutive MWI championship.

The result also added 1,000 points to Vitality’s Esports World Cup Club Championship total.

The back-to-back titles are not simply the result of building a new roster around individually successful players.

Most of Vitality’s core spent years competing together before joining the French organization. Fumi moved from GPX Basreng to Bigetron Era in June 2022, while Vival, Cinny, Chell and Vivian had already established themselves within the same competitive structure.

That continuity remained intact when Vitality entered women’s MLBB in 2024.

The result has been a lineup capable of retaining its position across multiple seasons rather than peaking at a single international tournament. Fumi and Team Vitality captured MWI in both 2025 and 2026, with the same five-player core behind both championship runs.

The 2026 event also carried broader significance for women’s MLBB. Sixteen teams competed in Paris as MWI made its European debut, while the Grand Final attracted one of the largest audiences the competition has recorded.

Fumi’s route into professional MLBB

Fumi did not initially see esports as a career.

Her introduction to MLBB came through her younger sister and a conversation about Angela, the support hero capable of attaching herself to teammates. Despite that early interest, Fumi eventually found her professional role in the EXP lane.

She joined GPX Basreng in November 2021 before moving to Bigetron Era in June 2022. Two years later, she became a Team Vitality player when the organization acquired the roster.

Fumi has since established herself among the most accomplished players in the women’s MLBB scene. Her recorded career prize money has passed $100,000, while the 2026 Women’s Invitational became the most-watched tournament she has competed in.

Her competitive career, however, has also required her to manage challenges that have little to do with the game itself.

Fumi was born without a knee joint in one leg and uses a prosthesis. International competition means frequent travel, and she has spoken about long flights causing both physical fatigue and pain.

She has also described the fear of being judged by people unfamiliar with her condition as a significant challenge. None of that prevented her from continuing in esports, where an initially casual interest in MLBB has developed into a career featuring consecutive international championships.

A third consecutive MWI title is now the target

Following Paris, Fumi and Team Vitality have created a different challenge for the rest of the women’s MLBB field.

Vitality is no longer chasing its first major international title. Its opponents are trying to end a championship run built around the same established core.

The next competitive cycle could give Fumi and her teammates an opportunity to win MWI for a third consecutive year. Maintaining the roster would provide Vitality with an advantage that is difficult to replicate through individual signings alone: years of shared competitive experience combined with consecutive titles at the biggest international event on the women’s MLBB calendar.

For Fumi, that would represent another chapter in a career that began without any intention of becoming a professional player – and has developed into one of the most successful runs on the women’s Mobile Legends stage.