Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Chaos Knight wins the Chaos Knight vs Slardar matchup: Chaos Knight beats Slardar in 53.03% of 4,969 ranked matches.
Slardar's entire game plan revolves around Corrosive Haze enabling physical burst, which makes Chaos Knight a very tempting target. The armor reduction makes the real hero extremely fragile. However, Chaos Knight's Phantasm illusions can quickly overwhelm a Slardar who doesn't have immediate backup. Slithereen Crush provides some area control to help identify the real Knight, but if the illusions get a surround, their combined damage can often overpower Slardar before his own team can capitalize on the Haze.
This dynamic creates a tense standoff in mid-game fights. Slardar typically wants to get a Blink Dagger and initiate on Chaos Knight from the shadows, hoping to delete him before he can use Phantasm. Conversely, Chaos Knight is also a strong initiator who wants to find an opening to Reality Rift a key target and burst them with his illusions. The fight often hinges on which of these two heroes gets the jump on the other, making vision, positioning, and item timings like BKB the deciding factors in their encounters.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Chaos Knight's win rate against Slardar 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 | Chaos Knight win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 53.22% | 466 |
| Crusader & Archon | 55.24% | 858 |
| Legend & Ancient | 54.56% | 515 |
Chaos Knight's win rate against Slardar in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Chaos Knight win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 53.03% | ▲ +0.2pp | 4,969 |
| 7.41d | 52.78% | ▲ +1.7pp | 58,106 |
| 7.41c | 51.06% | ▲ +0.4pp | 26,428 |
| 7.41b | 50.67% | — | 27,735 |
Move this data into a draft
Chaos Knight starts on Radiant and Slardar on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 17, 2026.