How Underlord and Bristleback perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41f, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Underlord and Bristleback win 47.44% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 6,003 matches.
Picking Underlord and Bristleback together commits your team to a slow-moving, durable frontline. The synergy is straightforward: Underlord can use Pit of Malice to trap enemies, setting them up for Bristleback to run them down and stack Quill Sprays. Atrophy Aura also makes it much harder for enemy cores to chew through Bristleback’s already massive health pool. The main issue is that both heroes do similar things. They offer sustained damage and tankiness but lack the burst or hard stuns needed to secure kills on elusive targets. While this pair is difficult to fight head-on, they can be kited and outmaneuvered by more mobile lineups.
How this pairing performs across skill brackets — the duo's team win rate 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 | Team win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 49.34% | 152 |
| Crusader & Archon | 49.21% | 191 |
This duo's team win rate in each recent balance patch — whether the pairing is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Team win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41f | 47.44% | ▼ -1.8pp | 6,003 |
| 7.41e | 49.19% | ▼ -0.7pp | 20,157 |
| 7.41d | 49.84% | ▼ -1.9pp | 19,446 |
| 7.41c | 51.72% | — | 10,033 |
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Data updated Oct 5, 2026.