How Beastmaster and Nyx Assassin perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Beastmaster and Nyx Assassin win 47.87% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,087 matches.
Pushing for objectives can feel a bit disconnected with this pairing. Beastmaster wants to group his team and summons to pressure towers, using Inner Beast to melt buildings. Nyx Assassin, on the other hand, excels at finding solo pickoffs from invisibility with Vendetta. While Primal Roar into Impale provides a solid lockdown chain for a single target, their overall goals can diverge. Beastmaster focuses on structured pushes and map control through pressure, while Nyx's impact comes from creating chaos and exploiting isolated heroes. They don't directly amplify each other's core game plan.
In practice, this often means the duo needs extra coordination to be effective. A successful gank from Nyx doesn't automatically translate into an objective for Beastmaster if the rest of the team isn't positioned to follow up. The enemy team can play around this by staying grouped, making it hard for Nyx to find his preferred targets and reducing the value of Beastmaster's single-target Roar. The combo isn't weak, but it requires both players to constantly adapt their playstyle to the other's, rather than their abilities naturally flowing into a shared objective.
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 | 53.98% | 113 |
| Crusader & Archon | 41.99% | 362 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.21% | 243 |
| Divine & Immortal | 36.04% | 111 |
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 | 47.87% | ▲ +2.0pp | 2,087 |
| 7.41d | 45.86% | ▼ -1.4pp | 29,718 |
| 7.41c | 47.23% | ▼ -2.6pp | 16,006 |
| 7.41b | 49.85% | — | 28,034 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.