
According to information from Sheep Esports, Natus Vincere (Navi) is preparing to join the League of Legends. It is expected that this organization will buy the current competition in LEC of Rogue.
Sheep Esports news site updates that Navi and Rogue's agreement is going to the final steps. Earlier, Rogue tried to leave the LEC tournament. However, Rogue was unable to sell, successfully fighting and entered the 2025 season, they had to rush to gather the squad to play at the last LEC.
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Sheep Esports also revealed that Rogue's competition was once expected by the "giants" to buy back last year. The emerging eSports organization - Falcons - also wanted to buy this capacity last year but Riot Games blocked the deal. Besides, Nigma Galaxy also wanted to buy this competition in October 2024 but the deal failed.
According to the close sources of the current Sheep Esports, Rogue's Roglobal, Rogue's parent company, is in the process of negotiating with Navi. This source believes in the possibility of an agreement that the two sides will soon be completed and Navi can play at LEC since the summer. However, this information has not been officially confirmed.
In fact, Navi appeared in League of Legends in 2012 but did not succeed, experienced a number of changes in the squad and eventually disintegrated in 2017. If the agreement with Rogue came into reality, Navi would return to the League of Legends after 8 years of absence, debut in the highest level tournament of Emea. This will also be the first time a LEC competition organization, since Karmine Corp joined in early 2024 to replace Astralis.
In addition to Navi information negotiating with Rogue, there are notable side problems such as the price of buying the competition at LEC or the "fate" of Rogue's squad. In terms of price, Sheep Esports has no information but predicts the amount will not be less than $ 30 million. Previously, when Karmine Corp bought, the organization sold to them, Astralis, pushed the competition to a new company, AK-Game SAS and then let Karmine Corp buy most of the company's shares.
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Since then, the amount of Karmine Corp has to pay 66.67% of the shares is 18 million USD, while the price for AK-Game SAS is 27 million USD. However, there is another case that Misfits sells directly to the Heretics team, the amount is rumored to about 40 million USD.
In terms of squad, Rogue currently owns a squad with some stars like Adam, Malrang. With Navi not investing in League of Legends for a long time, the organization of Ukraine buys the entire current team of Rogue is entirely possible. However, Rogue's achievements in recent seasons are not good when always in the end of the rankings. In the near future, Rogue will enter the spring tournament and will meet the Heretics team (March 29) and the BDS team (March 31) in the first week of competition.