Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Anti-Mage wins the Anti-Mage vs Sand King matchup: Anti-Mage beats Sand King in 51.43% of 7,360 ranked matches.
Expecting Anti-Mage to have an easy time here is a common mistake. The core of Sand King's initiation, Burrowstrike, is a ground-targeted stun that completely bypasses Counterspell, giving him a reliable way to lock down a mobile target. This means Sand King can always start a fight on his own terms. On the other hand, Anti-Mage's Blink is the perfect tool for escaping the follow-up damage from Epicenter or the rest of Sand King's team. This tension between a reliable stun and a reliable escape means neither hero has a built-in advantage over the other.
The matchup almost always comes down to timing and execution. A Sand King with a fast Blink Dagger can make Anti-Mage's life a nightmare, setting up kills across the map before key defensive items are online. Anti-Mage's goal is to survive this mid-game pressure, secure his farming items, and then use his mobility to split-push. Once AM gets ahead, he can dodge initiations and hunt a vulnerable Sand King. The game is a race: can SK and his team win with their mid-game power before Anti-Mage gets too farmed to control?
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Anti-Mage's win rate against Sand King 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 | Anti-Mage win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 49.81% | 532 |
| Crusader & Archon | 53.41% | 1,204 |
| Legend & Ancient | 51.92% | 703 |
| Divine & Immortal | 53.66% | 164 |
Anti-Mage's win rate against Sand King in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Anti-Mage win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 51.43% | ▲ +0.6pp | 7,360 |
| 7.41d | 50.82% | ▼ -0.5pp | 85,703 |
| 7.41c | 51.30% | ▲ +2.5pp | 39,040 |
| 7.41b | 48.82% | — | 50,117 |
Move this data into a draft
Anti-Mage starts on Radiant and Sand King on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 17, 2026.