How Chaos Knight and Nature's Prophet perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Chaos Knight and Nature's Prophet win 41.49% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 576 matches.
Playing for map control often puts these two cores at odds. Nature's Prophet excels at farming across the map with Teleportation, pushing out lanes and taking jungle camps that Chaos Knight needs to hit his own item timings. While Prophet is generating pressure, CK is a hero who farms relatively slowly and wants to consolidate resources, not see them spread thin. Their fundamental approaches clash: Chaos Knight wants to group up and brute-force objectives with Phantasm, while Nature's Prophet naturally wants to split the map and avoid direct teamfights.
This leads to a disjointed mid-game. Chaos Knight will have his ultimate ready and look for a fight, only to find his team fighting at a disadvantage because Nature's Prophet is pushing a distant lane. For this pair to succeed, Prophet must use his global mobility to join CK's initiations perfectly, catching targets in Sprout for a Chaos Bolt. More often, the enemy team can force a fight on one hero while the other is too far away to help, picking them apart and taking objectives before the split-push becomes a real threat.
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 | 47.39% | 460 |
| Crusader & Archon | 44.61% | 686 |
| Legend & Ancient | 43.37% | 392 |
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 | 41.49% | ▼ -2.6pp | 576 |
| 7.41d | 44.12% | ▼ -0.2pp | 56,434 |
| 7.41c | 44.34% | ▼ -0.4pp | 22,321 |
| 7.41b | 44.70% | — | 22,854 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.