How Beastmaster and Night Stalker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Beastmaster and Night Stalker win 45.08% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 122 matches.
Establishing vision with both a Beastmaster's Hawk and Night Stalker's Dark Ascension can feel redundant. Both heroes excel at creating map pressure and hunting down single targets, but their plans don't always build on each other effectively. While Primal Roar can certainly set up a kill for Night Stalker, the pair’s overall strengths are too similar. They both want to be the primary initiator and space-creator, leading to a game where they do the same job instead of covering different angles. The team often ends up with an excess of aggression and vision, while missing other key utility.
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 | 43.24% | 111 |
| Legend & Ancient | 45.28% | 106 |
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 | 45.08% | ▼ -1.4pp | 122 |
| 7.41d | 46.43% | ▼ -0.5pp | 12,312 |
| 7.41c | 46.91% | ▼ -3.3pp | 11,329 |
| 7.41b | 50.20% | — | 21,910 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.