Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Bounty Hunter wins the Bounty Hunter vs Sven matchup: Bounty Hunter beats Sven in 50.81% of 5,064 ranked matches.
Controlling Sven's farm is the central theme of this matchup. Bounty Hunter exists to disrupt the enemy carry's game, using Shadow Walk to find opportunities and Jinada to chip away at their economy. Tracking Sven provides crucial information and accelerates Bounty Hunter's own team. However, Sven has excellent recovery tools. Warcry adds a layer of armor that helps him survive early ganks, and Great Cleave allows him to clear stacked jungle camps incredibly fast, making up for any time he's forced out of lane. This creates a classic race between pressure and farm.
The outcome often depends on which hero's team better executes their strategy. Bounty Hunter wants to force constant skirmishes, using the gold from successful kills to build an insurmountable lead before Sven gets his core items. Sven, on the other hand, wants to dodge these fights, farm his key items like a BKB, and then group with his team. Once he has God's Strength and the ability to ignore spells, Bounty Hunter's nuisance factor drops significantly, and Sven can take over the game by simply running at the enemy team.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Bounty Hunter's win rate against Sven 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 | 48.81% | 420 |
| Crusader & Archon | 47.95% | 803 |
| Legend & Ancient | 47.10% | 603 |
| Divine & Immortal | 50.19% | 265 |
Bounty Hunter's win rate against Sven 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 | 50.81% | ▲ +0.5pp | 5,064 |
| 7.41d | 50.33% | ▲ +1.3pp | 50,192 |
| 7.41c | 49.07% | ▲ +0.3pp | 17,300 |
| 7.41b | 48.82% | — | 18,145 |
Move this data into a draft
Bounty Hunter starts on Radiant and Sven on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 17, 2026.