How Axe and Jakiro perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Axe and Jakiro win 48.01% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 23,593 matches.
Picking these two together often feels like creating a puzzle for your own team. Axe wants to jump in with Berserker's Call and force enemies to clump on top of him. Jakiro wants to set up a kill zone with Ice Path and Macropyre. The problem is that Axe’s initiation pulls enemies *to him*, which can easily drag them out of the static fire and ice Jakiro has already placed. A good Call can accidentally save the enemy team from Jakiro's best spells.
This creates a constant coordination challenge. If Jakiro leads with his spells, he's guessing where Axe will choose to initiate. If he waits for Axe to Blink in, the enemies are already spinning and moving, making it hard to land a perfect combo. It forces one player to react flawlessly to the other's timing. Instead of a smooth setup, it's an awkward scramble where both heroes often feel like they'd be more effective with a different partner providing a cleaner stun or slow.
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 | 51.89% | 1,399 |
| Crusader & Archon | 50.50% | 4,036 |
| Legend & Ancient | 47.36% | 2,899 |
| Divine & Immortal | 44.80% | 721 |
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 | 48.01% | ▼ -1.6pp | 23,593 |
| 7.41d | 49.60% | ▼ -0.3pp | 282,761 |
| 7.41c | 49.90% | ▲ +0.6pp | 108,297 |
| 7.41b | 49.26% | — | 111,444 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.