How Chaos Knight and Night Stalker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Chaos Knight and Night Stalker win 57.81% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 192 matches.
Committing to this duo means you're building your game plan around hunting down single targets. Night Stalker excels at creating pickoff opportunities, especially once it gets dark. His Crippling Fear silence is the key: it lets Chaos Knight pull a hero in with Reality Rift without them immediately using a defensive spell or escape. That guarantees the Chaos Bolt stun lands, and then both heroes can unload their physical damage. This forces the enemy to play clumped and scared once the sun goes down. When Night Stalker uses Dark Ascension, it's basically a global signal for Chaos Knight that it's open season.
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 | 51.12% | 178 |
| Legend & Ancient | 52.35% | 149 |
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 | 57.81% | ▲ +6.8pp | 192 |
| 7.41d | 51.03% | ▼ -3.8pp | 15,045 |
| 7.41c | 54.80% | ▲ +0.3pp | 9,412 |
| 7.41b | 54.46% | — | 11,290 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.