Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Tusk wins the Tinker vs Tusk matchup: Tusk beats Tinker in 51.51% of 431 ranked matches.
Picking Tinker into an enemy Tusk forces you to change how you position and farm the map. Tusk can use Snowball from the fog to close distance and stun you, often interrupting a key channel or preventing you from blinking away. A well-placed Ice Shards can also block your escape into the trees, trapping you for his team to follow up. While Tinker can still have an impact from a safe distance in big teamfights, the constant threat of Tusk hunting him down during the mid-game makes it much harder to build the momentum he needs. You're constantly forced to play more cautiously and respect his initiation range.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Tinker'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 | Tinker win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 51.70% | 383 |
| Legend & Ancient | 47.92% | 457 |
| Divine & Immortal | 46.25% | 240 |
Tinker'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 | Tinker win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 48.49% | ▼ -0.7pp | 431 |
| 7.41d | 49.23% | ▲ +0.2pp | 35,245 |
| 7.41c | 49.02% | ▲ +0.5pp | 17,978 |
| 7.41b | 48.54% | — | 17,446 |
Move this data into a draft
Tinker 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.