How Bane and Dragon Knight perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Bane and Dragon Knight win 51.06% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 188 matches.
Facing off against this lane often feels less threatening than it looks on paper. Both Dragon Knight and Bane bring powerful single-target lockdown, but their abilities overlap rather than complement each other. Committing both Dragon Tail and Fiend's Grip to a single kill is usually inefficient, leaving your team with few answers for the other enemies. While Bane can set up a kill with Nightmare, Dragon Knight is a durable fighter, not a burst assassin. He lacks the immediate damage to quickly secure the kill on his own, especially before his Dragon Form comes online. The pair simply invests too much control into one target without the damage to consistently convert it.
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 | 48.72% | 117 |
| Crusader & Archon | 45.41% | 196 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.97% | 155 |
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 | 51.06% | ▲ +3.6pp | 188 |
| 7.41d | 47.44% | ▲ +1.3pp | 19,752 |
| 7.41c | 46.10% | ▲ +0.9pp | 8,740 |
| 7.41b | 45.19% | — | 8,990 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.