How Anti-Mage and Tusk perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Anti-Mage and Tusk win 47.21% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 7,411 matches.
Playing against this draft often feels like you're only facing four heroes for the first half of the game. Tusk lives to force early action with Snowball and Ice Shards, looking for pickoffs to build a lead. Anti-Mage, however, needs to avoid those exact fights to farm his core items. He can't contribute much to Tusk's aggressive brawling and doesn't have the early damage to capitalize on a Walrus PUNCH setup. This leaves Tusk's initiations feeling underpowered, lacking the carry follow-up they are designed to enable.
The result is a team pulling in two opposite directions. Tusk will try to make space by fighting, but without a hard-hitting core joining him, his aggression can easily backfire. Enemies can then group up and pressure objectives, knowing Anti-Mage isn't ready to join a defense. By the time Anti-Mage is strong enough to fight, Tusk's own impact has started to fade. The two heroes want to win the game in completely different ways, and their timings rarely line up to create a cohesive strategy.
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 | 45.55% | 382 |
| Crusader & Archon | 45.19% | 1,175 |
| Legend & Ancient | 45.94% | 1,145 |
| Divine & Immortal | 41.03% | 390 |
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 | 47.21% | ▲ +0.9pp | 7,411 |
| 7.41d | 46.32% | ▲ +0.3pp | 84,557 |
| 7.41c | 46.06% | ▲ +0.1pp | 38,556 |
| 7.41b | 45.94% | — | 39,808 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.