Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dawnbreaker wins the Dawnbreaker vs Keeper of the Light matchup: Dawnbreaker beats Keeper of the Light in 50.64% of 1,019 ranked matches.
Picking Keeper of the Light into a Dawnbreaker forces a game of space control. Keeper is excellent at keeping melee heroes at a distance. A well-timed Blinding Light can completely ruin Dawnbreaker's initiation, pushing her out of her own Solar Guardian landing or shoving her away from a target she's trying to lock down with her combo. This directly counters her game plan of committing hard to a fight. On the other hand, Dawnbreaker is designed to close gaps and burst fragile targets. If she ever gets on top of Keeper of the Light, he has no real escape and dies very quickly.
Throughout the game, Keeper will try to manage the map by constantly shoving lanes with Illuminate, forcing Dawnbreaker to react and limiting her freedom to make plays elsewhere. In teamfights, the outcome often depends on positioning. Keeper wants to stay far in the back, using his spells to protect his cores from Dawnbreaker's aggression. Dawnbreaker, meanwhile, is looking for that one opening to dive past the frontline and eliminate Keeper before he can disrupt her team's entire engagement. It’s a true tug-of-war that can go either way.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Dawnbreaker's win rate against Keeper of the Light 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 | Dawnbreaker win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 51.67% | 269 |
| Crusader & Archon | 49.89% | 876 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.17% | 897 |
| Divine & Immortal | 46.54% | 492 |
Dawnbreaker's win rate against Keeper of the Light in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Dawnbreaker win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 50.64% | ▲ +1.1pp | 1,019 |
| 7.41d | 49.52% | ▼ -0.6pp | 74,427 |
| 7.41c | 50.08% | ▼ -0.8pp | 38,158 |
| 7.41b | 50.90% | — | 31,633 |
Move this data into a draft
Dawnbreaker starts on Radiant and Keeper of the Light on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 11, 2026.