Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Queen of Pain wins the Drow Ranger vs Queen of Pain matchup: Queen of Pain beats Drow Ranger in 51.45% of 20,512 ranked matches.
A Queen of Pain’s game plan revolves around blinking in to unload her spells. Drow Ranger's Gust provides a direct, ranged answer by silencing her on arrival. This prevents QoP from casting Scream of Pain or Sonic Wave, and often stops her from blinking out again. This single ability can turn an aggressive jump into a death sentence, forcing the Queen of Pain to be much more careful about how she approaches fights where Drow is present and has her cooldowns ready.
In practice, this means Queen of Pain can't reliably solo-kill Drow Ranger past the laning stage. She needs to wait for Drow to be out of position or for a teammate to initiate first. The matchup becomes a game of positioning and reaction time. A good QoP will try to find an angle where Drow can't see the jump coming, often with a Blink Dagger from the fog of war. Drow's team, in turn, needs to provide vision and play around her, allowing her to punish any predictable dives.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Drow Ranger's win rate against Queen of Pain 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 | Drow Ranger win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 51.47% | 1,086 |
| Crusader & Archon | 53.15% | 2,858 |
| Legend & Ancient | 52.55% | 2,356 |
| Divine & Immortal | 49.28% | 763 |
Drow Ranger's win rate against Queen of Pain in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Drow Ranger win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 48.55% | ▼ -6.0pp | 20,512 |
| 7.41d | 54.51% | ▲ +0.2pp | 283,460 |
| 7.41c | 54.32% | ▲ +3.9pp | 143,135 |
| 7.41b | 50.39% | — | 125,798 |
Move this data into a draft
Drow Ranger starts on Radiant and Queen of Pain on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 17, 2026.