Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Disruptor wins the Disruptor vs Sand King matchup: Disruptor beats Sand King in 52.76% of 5,916 ranked matches.
Blinking in for a perfect Epicenter only to get Glimpsed back to your starting point is a core problem for Sand King. Disruptor's entire kit feels designed to punish this kind of initiation. Glimpse completely undoes the jump, and if Sand King manages to start his combo anyway, Kinetic Field and Static Storm can trap and silence him. This prevents him from using Sand Storm to become invisible or Burrowstrike to escape after channeling his ultimate. Every one of Sand King’s big moves has a direct answer.
This dynamic forces Sand King to play much more cautiously through the mid-game. He has to wait for Disruptor to use spells on someone else, or he must make Disruptor his primary target and hope to burst him down before he can react. The matchup often hinges on item timings. A Sand King with a Black King Bar can ignore the control and get his fight-winning ultimate off. Without it, he risks being completely nullified in a teamfight, which gives Disruptor a consistent, but not absolute, edge.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Disruptor's win rate against Sand King 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 | Disruptor win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 54.78% | 230 |
| Crusader & Archon | 53.74% | 642 |
| Legend & Ancient | 57.34% | 593 |
| Divine & Immortal | 54.55% | 209 |
Disruptor's win rate against Sand King in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Disruptor win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 52.76% | ▲ +0.3pp | 5,916 |
| 7.41d | 52.43% | ▼ -0.5pp | 47,584 |
| 7.41c | 52.92% | ▲ +2.0pp | 21,659 |
| 7.41b | 50.91% | — | 31,688 |
Move this data into a draft
Disruptor starts on Radiant and Sand King on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 18, 2026.