How Centaur Warrunner and Sand King perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Centaur Warrunner and Sand King win 47.60% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,017 matches.
Fielding both of these heroes often creates an awkward game plan, as they both want to occupy a similar role and farm for the same core item: Blink Dagger. This can slow down the team's overall tempo, leaving you with two initiators who aren't quite ready to fight when they need to be. In teamfights, Centaur Warrunner and Sand King can feel redundant. Both want to be the one to jump in first with a big area-of-effect stun, either Hoof Stomp or Burrowstrike. While you can chain the lockdown, it's common for their initiations to overlap inefficiently. Stampede can set up a perfect Epicenter, but the core issue of two heroes competing for the same job often makes skirmishes clunkier than they should be.
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 | 47.13% | 157 |
| Crusader & Archon | 47.17% | 318 |
| Legend & Ancient | 45.97% | 211 |
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 | 47.60% | ▼ -2.2pp | 2,017 |
| 7.41d | 49.79% | ▲ +1.6pp | 17,898 |
| 7.41c | 48.20% | ▲ +0.9pp | 9,098 |
| 7.41b | 47.33% | — | 12,431 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.