How Chaos Knight and Mars perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Chaos Knight and Mars win 59.12% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 137 matches.
Drafting Chaos Knight and Mars together often leads to frustrating teamfights, as their ultimates directly interfere with each other. When Mars casts Arena of Blood, he creates a barrier that Chaos Knight’s Phantasm illusions cannot attack through. This effectively cuts off CK's main source of damage from any enemy trapped inside the arena. Chaos Knight is then faced with a bad choice: either enter the fight alone without his army, or watch his illusions beat uselessly against the wall. Even a successful Reality Rift pull is complicated by the Arena, which continues to zone the illusions and disrupts the simple goal of swarming and bursting a target.
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 | 44.85% | 136 |
| Legend & Ancient | 54.14% | 133 |
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 | 59.12% | ▲ +11.2pp | 137 |
| 7.41d | 47.92% | ▲ +1.0pp | 12,917 |
| 7.41c | 46.94% | ▲ +0.3pp | 9,258 |
| 7.41b | 46.68% | — | 11,222 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.