Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Bounty Hunter wins the Bounty Hunter vs Medusa matchup: Bounty Hunter beats Medusa in 54.65% of 2,313 ranked matches.
Tracking a Medusa provides the gold needed to itemize against her Mana Shield, letting Bounty Hunter's team coordinate ganks to keep her down. This strategy relies on ending the game before she can recover. The problem is that Medusa is built to survive early pressure. A good Stone Gaze can easily turn a gank around, and her teammates will often play defensively around her to ensure she reaches her late-game potential. If Medusa gets her core items, she becomes a tanky teamfighter that Bounty Hunter can't meaningfully threaten alone. The game becomes a race between BH's mid-game pressure and Medusa's inevitable scaling.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Bounty Hunter's win rate against Medusa 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 | 48.96% | 192 |
| Crusader & Archon | 60.10% | 386 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.38% | 262 |
Bounty Hunter's win rate against Medusa 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 | 54.65% | ▲ +3.1pp | 2,313 |
| 7.41d | 51.54% | ▲ +1.4pp | 30,633 |
| 7.41c | 50.09% | ▲ +0.7pp | 15,441 |
| 7.41b | 49.36% | — | 16,332 |
Move this data into a draft
Bounty Hunter starts on Radiant and Medusa on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 17, 2026.