How Anti-Mage and Primal Beast perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Anti-Mage and Primal Beast win 48.06% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 5,013 matches.
Trying to manage this duo feels like fighting on two different fronts. Primal Beast wants to run at the enemy and force action across the map with Onslaught and Trample from early on. Anti-Mage, however, wants to avoid these chaotic fights, preferring to split-push and farm for his core items in relative isolation. Primal Beast might land a perfect multi-hero setup, but Anti-Mage is rarely in a position to Blink in and contribute meaningful damage. His Mana Void also gets little help from a hero who deals almost no mana-draining damage.
This core conflict in timing and objective defines their partnership. Primal Beast is pressured to create an overwhelming amount of space, often having to play sacrificially while his team waits for their carry to come online. The game becomes a race: can Primal Beast and the supports cause enough disruption to make room for Anti-Mage, or will the enemy team punish the divided strategy and snowball before he is ready? The outcome is unpredictable because both game plans are viable but rarely work together.
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 | 43.96% | 323 |
| Crusader & Archon | 45.68% | 775 |
| Legend & Ancient | 43.53% | 510 |
| Divine & Immortal | 48.28% | 116 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 48.06% | ▼ -0.4pp | 5,013 |
| 7.41d | 48.46% | ▲ +1.0pp | 65,068 |
| 7.41c | 47.44% | ▼ -1.8pp | 30,149 |
| 7.41b | 49.27% | — | 33,680 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.