Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Necrophos wins the Necrophos vs Queen of Pain matchup: Necrophos beats Queen of Pain in 54.06% of 25,562 ranked matches.
Picking a mobile burst hero like Queen of Pain into Necrophos is a calculated risk that often backfires. Queen of Pain’s game plan revolves around landing her full magic combo to secure a kill, but Necrophos is designed to survive exactly that. His constant healing from Death Pulse negates her poke damage, and Heartstopper Aura steadily wears her down even if she uses Blink to keep her distance. If she does commit for a kill, she often can't finish the job and finds herself at the perfect health threshold to be executed by Reaper's Scythe, an ultimate she cannot Blink away from once it is cast.
Throughout the game, this pressure forces Queen of Pain to play on the back foot. She can’t bully him out of the lane, and in teamfights, she has to worry about getting too close and taking passive damage. Her only real option is to snowball hard off other lanes and hope her team has enough lockdown and damage to deal with Necrophos for her. Meanwhile, Necrophos can play confidently, knowing his kit directly counters the burst and mobility that Queen of Pain relies on to be effective. He can simply exist in a fight and make her life difficult.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Necrophos'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 | Necrophos win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 57.17% | 1,172 |
| Crusader & Archon | 58.01% | 3,732 |
| Legend & Ancient | 56.14% | 3,345 |
| Divine & Immortal | 52.98% | 1,140 |
Necrophos'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 | Necrophos win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 54.06% | ▼ -2.1pp | 25,562 |
| 7.41d | 56.14% | ▲ +0.6pp | 315,097 |
| 7.41c | 55.54% | ▲ +3.3pp | 173,494 |
| 7.41b | 52.21% | — | 172,870 |
Move this data into a draft
Necrophos 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.