How Bloodseeker and Night Stalker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Bloodseeker and Night Stalker win 53.66% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 328 matches.
Hunting someone down during the first night cycle becomes incredibly effective with this pair. Night Stalker creates the perfect environment with Darkness, reducing enemy vision and making it easy to isolate a target. Once an opponent takes damage, Bloodseeker's Thirst kicks in, giving him vision and a massive speed boost to join the gank from anywhere on the map. They both excel at chasing, and Night Stalker's ability to initiate a fight and get a hero low is exactly what Bloodseeker needs to activate his passive and snowball.
This duo puts the enemy team on the back foot for the entire game. They can't farm lanes safely or move between towers without risking a coordinated gank from two of the fastest heroes on the map. Spreading out is a death sentence, but grouping up doesn't solve the problem either, as Bloodseeker can use Rupture to lock down a key target while Night Stalker silences another. The constant pressure forces mistakes and makes it extremely difficult for the other team to execute their own strategy.
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 | 48.65% | 185 |
| Crusader & Archon | 51.76% | 340 |
| Legend & Ancient | 55.79% | 242 |
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 | 53.66% | ▲ +0.4pp | 328 |
| 7.41d | 53.29% | ▲ +0.8pp | 30,645 |
| 7.41c | 52.51% | ▼ -1.1pp | 17,058 |
| 7.41b | 53.66% | — | 19,304 |
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Data updated Aug 12, 2026.