How Bane and Dark Willow perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Bane and Dark Willow win 46.75% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,692 matches.
Picking these two supports together can feel like a trap on paper. You have a ton of lockdown, but it often overlaps in awkward ways. Bane wants to use Fiend's Grip to hold one target still for his cores, but a poorly timed Terrorize from Dark Willow can make that target run away, breaking the channel. Likewise, Nightmare setups can be fragile, and Dark Willow's area damage from Bedlam or Bramble Maze can easily wake the target before your team is ready. While they can certainly chain their disables together with good coordination, they have a natural tendency to step on each other's toes, leading to less effective ganks and wasted control in teamfights.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 38.91% | 221 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.82% | 173 |
| Divine & Immortal | 56.25% | 112 |
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 | 46.75% | ▼ -0.4pp | 1,692 |
| 7.41d | 47.19% | ▲ +0.2pp | 18,234 |
| 7.41c | 47.01% | ▲ +0.4pp | 6,335 |
| 7.41b | 46.65% | — | 6,236 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.