How Bristleback and Wraith King perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Bristleback and Wraith King win 54.02% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 635 matches.
Forcing objectives becomes very straightforward when you have two cores who are this hard to kill. The enemy team has to commit huge resources to chew through Bristleback, and if they manage that, they still have to kill Wraith King twice because of Reincarnation. All that time spent trying to kill one front-liner gives the other free rein to run amok. Wraith King's stun also gives Bristleback a perfect setup to land his slows and stack Quill Sprays, making it nearly impossible for a target to escape once they're caught.
This duo wants to group up in the mid-game and become a wrecking ball that runs at towers. The opposing team is put in a terrible position: they can't effectively burst either hero, and they can't easily disengage because of the constant slows. The usual response is to try and split-push to avoid a direct confrontation, or to draft heroes that can drain their mana and kite them from a safe distance. If you let them get on top of you, the fight is probably already over.
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 | 55.60% | 509 |
| Crusader & Archon | 53.95% | 797 |
| Legend & Ancient | 53.81% | 407 |
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 | 54.02% | ▼ -0.4pp | 635 |
| 7.41d | 54.45% | ▲ +0.2pp | 66,034 |
| 7.41c | 54.22% | ▼ -0.7pp | 33,784 |
| 7.41b | 54.95% | — | 41,351 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.