How Arc Warden and Phantom Lancer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Arc Warden and Phantom Lancer win 53.54% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 820 matches.
Thinking these two cores will starve each other out is the wrong way to look at it. Arc Warden's Tempest Double can farm or pressure a lane on its own, which actually creates space for Phantom Lancer to farm safely elsewhere. When they do need to fight, Arc Warden provides the perfect support. A well-placed Magnetic Field gives Phantom Lancer a safe zone to generate illusions, granting him evasion and the attack speed needed to get the swarm started. Flux also helps lock down a single hero for the illusion army to overwhelm.
This puts the enemy team in a bind from the mid-game onward. They are forced to choose between splitting their focus to deal with two pushers, or grouping up and letting one of them take objectives for free. Pushing high ground against this combination is a massive challenge. The enemy has to break through a Phantom Lancer who is hard to hit inside his Magnetic Field, all while Arc Warden's Double spams spells from a safe distance. The map pressure and defensive power become too much to handle.
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 | 52.09% | 407 |
| Crusader & Archon | 51.17% | 895 |
| Legend & Ancient | 52.45% | 490 |
| Divine & Immortal | 50.00% | 114 |
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 | 53.54% | ▲ +0.7pp | 820 |
| 7.41d | 52.87% | ▲ +0.4pp | 62,178 |
| 7.41c | 52.42% | ▲ +0.1pp | 25,058 |
| 7.41b | 52.31% | — | 25,119 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.