How Beastmaster and Dawnbreaker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Beastmaster and Dawnbreaker win 46.36% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 151 matches.
Controlling the map early is the main goal here. Beastmaster's summons, especially his Hawk, provide vision that makes for perfect Solar Guardian targets. Dawnbreaker can turn any skirmish into a numbers advantage, landing on a boar or a teammate scouting with the hawk. This creates a lot of pressure and forces the enemy to play defensively. The main point of friction comes from their lockdowns. Primal Roar is a great single-target initiation, but the pushback can easily move a hero out of range of Dawnbreaker's Starbreaker or other follow-up, sometimes saving the target by accident.
This duo thrives on making proactive plays across the map, converting Beastmaster's vision into kills for a brawling Dawnbreaker. The game plan involves taking early towers and controlling enemy territory. The challenge is executing clean initiations in bigger fights. The team has to be coordinated, often waiting for Dawnbreaker to be in position before Beastmaster commits his Roar. An aware enemy will try to force disorganized fights, split-pushing to pull the global heroes apart and punish any slight positioning error or mis-timed ability from either of them.
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 | 52.87% | 157 |
| Legend & Ancient | 48.44% | 128 |
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 | 46.36% | ▼ -0.7pp | 151 |
| 7.41d | 47.04% | ▼ -0.9pp | 17,131 |
| 7.41c | 47.93% | ▼ -4.4pp | 16,993 |
| 7.41b | 52.32% | — | 30,789 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.