How Bounty Hunter and Tusk perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Bounty Hunter and Tusk win 49.35% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,077 matches.
Drafting both Bounty Hunter and Tusk often commits a team to a very specific, aggressive game plan. These heroes fill a similar role, both wanting to roam the map early to create pressure and secure kills. This can lead to some redundancy. Tusk provides a hard initiation with Snowball, which can set up a kill, but it’s a very telegraphed move that doesn’t always align with Bounty Hunter’s preference for stalking from stealth. While they can chain their abilities to burst a Tracked target, having both on a team often means sacrificing a defensive support or large-scale teamfight control, making your strategy predictable and potentially weak against coordinated teams.
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 | 40.91% | 132 |
| Crusader & Archon | 42.02% | 257 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.18% | 314 |
| Divine & Immortal | 52.88% | 191 |
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 | 49.35% | ▲ +1.8pp | 2,077 |
| 7.41d | 47.56% | ▲ +0.5pp | 23,965 |
| 7.41c | 47.03% | ▼ -0.5pp | 10,995 |
| 7.41b | 47.55% | — | 11,612 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.