Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41f win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Windranger wins the Keeper of the Light vs Windranger matchup: Windranger beats Keeper of the Light in 50.75% of 43,146 ranked matches.
Lining up a kill on an enemy feels a lot less certain when a Keeper of the Light is on the other team. Windranger wants to land a good Shackleshot and unload Focus Fire, but KOTL's toolkit is built to spoil that plan. The miss chance from Blinding Light alone can ruin her ultimate's damage, and the knockback can save a tethered ally by pushing Windranger away or moving her target out of range. Add in Illuminate constantly shoving lanes and providing vision, and it becomes much harder for Windranger to find the ganks and pickoffs she relies on to get ahead.
This dynamic means Windranger has to be more careful about her positioning and target priority. She can’t simply run at the first hero she sees if Keeper of the Light is nearby. A Black King Bar becomes a higher priority purchase to ignore the miss and knockback, but that's a significant investment. For his part, the KOTL player's main job in teamfights is to save his Blinding Light for the moment Windranger commits. If he can consistently disrupt her Focus Fire attempts, he neuters a huge part of her impact, giving his own team a small but consistent opening.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Keeper of the Light's win rate against Windranger 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 | Keeper of the Light win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 52.47% | 446 |
| Crusader & Archon | 49.03% | 1,334 |
| Legend & Ancient | 53.43% | 1,372 |
| Divine & Immortal | 53.99% | 589 |
Keeper of the Light's win rate against Windranger in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Keeper of the Light win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41f | 49.25% | ▼ -1.6pp | 43,146 |
| 7.41e | 50.81% | ▼ -0.5pp | 147,275 |
| 7.41d | 51.35% | ▼ -0.4pp | 132,984 |
| 7.41c | 51.71% | — | 45,363 |
Move this data into a draft
Keeper of the Light starts on Radiant and Windranger on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Oct 5, 2026.