How Beastmaster and Marci perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Beastmaster and Marci win 46.13% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,550 matches.
Jumping a single target with this pair often feels like overkill. Beastmaster’s Primal Roar and Marci's Rebound into Dispose are both premium, single-target initiation tools. Committing both to one enemy is frequently a waste of major cooldowns, leaving the team vulnerable if a fight expands. Their damage profiles also overlap significantly. With both heroes focusing heavily on physical output, opponents can easily itemize with armor to blunt your aggression. While Marci gets some benefit from Beastmaster's attack speed aura during Unleash, it’s not as impactful as it might seem, given how fast she already attacks.
This redundancy forces the team onto a very strict timer. You have to win fights and take objectives early, because the combined offensive power of Beastmaster and Marci doesn't scale well into the late game against balanced lineups. Opponents can anticipate this strategy and react by grouping up sooner than they normally would, nullifying the pickoff potential. If that initial window of dominance closes, the lineup's lack of magical burst or sustained teamfight control becomes a serious problem, making it difficult to break high ground or handle carries who have had time to farm.
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 | 47.50% | 120 |
| Crusader & Archon | 43.14% | 255 |
| Legend & Ancient | 47.83% | 161 |
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 | 46.13% | ▲ +1.8pp | 1,550 |
| 7.41d | 44.34% | ▼ -0.4pp | 19,602 |
| 7.41c | 44.73% | ▼ -2.7pp | 13,125 |
| 7.41b | 47.47% | — | 24,391 |
Move this data into a draft
Both heroes start on Radiant. Fill the remaining slots to test this pairing inside a complete draft and get next-pick recommendations.
Data updated Aug 17, 2026.