Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Wraith King wins the Wraith King vs Tusk matchup: Wraith King beats Tusk in 57.39% of 995 ranked matches.
Trying to burst down a core hero only for them to stand right back up is a disaster for a tempo-setter like Tusk. His whole game plan revolves around using Snowball and Walrus Punch to pick someone off and create a numbers advantage. Wraith King's Reincarnation makes this almost impossible to do successfully. Tusk has to commit his biggest cooldowns to kill Wraith King the first time, leaving him with nothing when the king rises again to rejoin the fight. The entire gank is wasted.
As a result, Tusk is forced to play around Wraith King, which is hard to do when WK is often the biggest threat. He can’t effectively initiate on his main target, allowing Wraith King to farm freely and hit his item timings without fear. While Tusk can still try to gank supports, this lets WK push towers with his skeletons and take over the map. Tusk's only real option is to try and bait the ultimate and run, but a good Wraith King player will simply force the fight and run Tusk's team over.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Wraith King's win rate against Tusk 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 | Wraith King win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 60.65% | 310 |
| Crusader & Archon | 62.66% | 1,007 |
| Legend & Ancient | 52.56% | 1,092 |
| Divine & Immortal | 56.09% | 353 |
Wraith King's win rate against Tusk in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Wraith King win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 57.39% | ▼ -0.6pp | 995 |
| 7.41d | 57.96% | ▲ +1.7pp | 80,393 |
| 7.41c | 56.29% | ▲ +0.2pp | 39,321 |
| 7.41b | 56.09% | — | 46,046 |
Move this data into a draft
Wraith King starts on Radiant and Tusk on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 11, 2026.