How Bristleback and Primal Beast perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Bristleback and Primal Beast win 48.87% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 133 matches.
Drafting these two together can feel greedy since they occupy similar roles, but they create an overwhelming amount of pressure. Primal Beast provides the lockdown that Bristleback lacks, holding a key target in place with Pulverize for Quill Spray to stack up. Both heroes want to run straight at the enemy team and are incredibly hard to bring down, forcing opponents into terrible decisions about who to focus first. Granted, you don't see this combination played very often lately. Still, the constant chaos they generate lets them take over fights.
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 | 45.39% | 141 |
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 | 48.87% | ▼ -0.0pp | 133 |
| 7.41d | 48.91% | ▼ -3.1pp | 14,193 |
| 7.41c | 52.05% | ▼ -2.6pp | 9,036 |
| 7.41b | 54.64% | — | 11,440 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.