How Beastmaster and Silencer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Beastmaster and Silencer win 44.99% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,550 matches.
Stacking big ultimates seems like an easy win, but Primal Roar and Global Silence often do the same job. Beastmaster's Roar is already a BKB-piercing lockdown that shoves other enemies out of the way, creating an isolated pickoff. Adding Global Silence on top of that is usually overkill for securing that one kill. Unless the enemy team has specific long-range saves, you're committing two major cooldowns for a result one of them could have achieved alone. This can feel inefficient, especially when both spells are so valuable for controlling different stages of a fight.
Across the game, this leads to a conflict in priorities. Beastmaster wants to play on his Roar cooldown, constantly looking for openings to run at a target and take an objective. Silencer, on the other hand, often provides more value by holding Global Silence as a defensive reaction to the other team's big initiation. This means they rarely get the perfect overlap they’re looking for. Instead of enabling each other, Beastmaster and Silencer end up playing their own games on the same map, which doesn't lead to any special advantage.
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 | 43.24% | 222 |
| Crusader & Archon | 45.13% | 585 |
| Legend & Ancient | 45.68% | 451 |
| Divine & Immortal | 58.08% | 167 |
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 | 44.99% | ▼ -0.5pp | 3,550 |
| 7.41d | 45.47% | ▼ -1.2pp | 49,189 |
| 7.41c | 46.68% | ▼ -3.1pp | 29,604 |
| 7.41b | 49.73% | — | 53,050 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.