Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Bounty Hunter wins the Bounty Hunter vs Dragon Knight matchup: Bounty Hunter beats Dragon Knight in 50.90% of 2,676 ranked matches.
Picking one of these heroes into the other is less about a direct counter and more about a bet on your team's game plan. Bounty Hunter thrives on bursting isolated targets, but Dragon Knight's natural tankiness from Dragon's Blood makes him a terrible target for that. A Bounty Hunter who finds a lone Dragon Knight usually has to leave him alone. On the other side, Dragon Knight doesn't have the tools to reliably catch and kill an invisible hero. He can land his stun, but if his team isn't nearby, Bounty Hunter can often slip away.
This forces the game into a contest of opposing strategies. Bounty Hunter has to ignore Dragon Knight and focus on ganking his supports with Track to build a gold lead for the team. Meanwhile, Dragon Knight needs to group up as soon as Dragon Form is ready and push down objectives, forcing fights where his durability is an asset. The match is decided by which hero executes their plan better across the map, not by who wins a one-on-one fight.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Bounty Hunter'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 | Bounty Hunter win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 47.67% | 258 |
| Crusader & Archon | 48.34% | 513 |
| Legend & Ancient | 55.30% | 264 |
| Divine & Immortal | 55.05% | 109 |
Bounty Hunter'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 | Bounty Hunter win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 50.90% | ▼ -0.1pp | 2,676 |
| 7.41d | 50.96% | ▲ +1.3pp | 32,725 |
| 7.41c | 49.68% | ▲ +0.1pp | 16,491 |
| 7.41b | 49.58% | — | 17,663 |
Move this data into a draft
Bounty Hunter 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.