How Broodmother and Sand King perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Broodmother and Sand King win 53.52% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,037 matches.
Setting up a fight with an Epicenter can give Broodmother a perfect window to act. While enemies are slowed and scrambling, Sand King's Burrowstrike can lock down a key target. This allows Broodmother and her spiderlings to swarm in, adding a massive amount of physical damage and body blocking to the chaos Sand King creates. The main issue is that both heroes can struggle against the same heavy area-of-effect spells. If the enemy team is prepared to clear out the spiders, they're often also prepared to kite out the Epicenter, making it difficult for this pair to get a clean fight.
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 | 58.41% | 113 |
| Crusader & Archon | 51.76% | 170 |
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 | 53.52% | ▲ +3.6pp | 1,037 |
| 7.41d | 49.89% | ▼ -1.0pp | 14,124 |
| 7.41c | 50.93% | ▲ +0.0pp | 7,238 |
| 7.41b | 50.90% | — | 11,599 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.