Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Death Prophet wins the Death Prophet vs Venomancer matchup: Death Prophet beats Venomancer in 51.69% of 4,715 ranked matches.
Pushing high ground with Death Prophet is tricky when a Venomancer is defending. The constant slows and area-of-effect poison make it difficult for her to stay on top of targets and get full value from Exorcism. A well-placed Poison Nova during her ultimate can completely shut down a teamfight, forcing her team to scatter or die. However, Death Prophet's Spirit Siphon gives her a way to fight back, sustaining her through a lot of the damage-over-time and allowing her to focus down a key target. This creates a stalemate where neither hero has a clear, decisive advantage in a direct confrontation.
The matchup often comes down to which team better enables its hero's game plan. Death Prophet wants her team to commit hard and fast with her Exorcism, taking an objective before Venomancer's poison can whittle them down. Venomancer, on the other hand, wants his team to play defensively, kiting the push and letting his spells do the work over a longer fight. It's a classic battle of tempo. Both heroes want to control the map with sustained pressure, but one is pushing in while the other is holding them off, making the outcome highly dependent on team execution rather than an inherent hero advantage.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Death Prophet's win rate against Venomancer 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 | Death Prophet win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 51.15% | 391 |
| Crusader & Archon | 50.30% | 670 |
| Legend & Ancient | 53.24% | 432 |
| Divine & Immortal | 55.07% | 138 |
Death Prophet's win rate against Venomancer in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Death Prophet win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 51.69% | ▲ +1.9pp | 4,715 |
| 7.41d | 49.76% | ▼ -1.1pp | 60,049 |
| 7.41c | 50.82% | ▲ +1.7pp | 32,954 |
| 7.41b | 49.09% | — | 44,296 |
Move this data into a draft
Death Prophet starts on Radiant and Venomancer on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 17, 2026.