Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Underlord wins the Underlord vs Dragon Knight matchup: Underlord beats Dragon Knight in 52.32% of 4,016 ranked matches.
Playing as Dragon Knight into an Underlord feels like trying to run through mud. You want to be a frontline tank that walks at the enemy and stuns a key target, but Pit of Malice constantly locks you down. This usually happens right under a Firestorm, forcing you to absorb a lot of damage for standing still. Even when you can connect, Underlord's Atrophy Aura saps your right-click damage, making you less of a threat than you should be. He doesn’t have the burst to kill you quickly, but he makes it very hard for you to do your job.
This pattern continues into the mid and late game teamfights. Underlord effectively dictates where Dragon Knight can and can't go. A well-placed Pit can completely zone Dragon Knight out of a fight or stop his initiation cold, especially when he's a big target in Elder Dragon Form. Dragon Knight's main response is to get a Black King Bar to ignore the root, but that forces a big commitment. Underlord is happy to trade his basic spells for DK's ultimate and BKB, creating space for his own cores to operate freely.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Underlord's win rate against Dragon Knight in recent ranked matches, split by average match rank. Ranks with too few recent matches are omitted. These rows use the last 30 days of quality-filtered ranked matches, all patches in that span combined — a wider window than the patch-scoped count above, so the per-rank match totals can exceed it.
| Rank | Underlord win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 53.33% | 285 |
| Crusader & Archon | 52.12% | 708 |
| Legend & Ancient | 53.89% | 553 |
| Divine & Immortal | 54.40% | 125 |
Underlord's win rate against Dragon Knight in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Underlord win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 52.32% | ▲ +0.1pp | 4,016 |
| 7.41d | 52.19% | ▼ -0.2pp | 44,498 |
| 7.41c | 52.43% | ▼ -0.9pp | 21,903 |
| 7.41b | 53.35% | — | 21,180 |
Move this data into a draft
Underlord starts on Radiant and Dragon Knight on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 17, 2026.