How Chaos Knight and Sven perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Chaos Knight and Sven win 52.70% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,393 matches.
Running two farm-heavy strength cores often feels like a mistake, but the way Chaos Knight and Sven deal damage can complement each other. Sven’s job with God's Strength and Great Cleave is to cut through the entire enemy team at once, while Chaos Knight uses Phantasm to find a single, high-priority hero and delete them. This gives your draft both a frontline area-of-effect threat and reliable single-target burst. The simple stun chain of Storm Hammer into Chaos Bolt is also effective for securing kills. They can still compete for farm on the map, which keeps this from being a dominant pairing, but their combined physical threat can end fights before the enemy knows what to focus.
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 | 52.81% | 320 |
| Crusader & Archon | 54.31% | 580 |
| Legend & Ancient | 48.40% | 376 |
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 | 52.70% | ▲ +1.9pp | 3,393 |
| 7.41d | 50.84% | ▼ -2.9pp | 33,584 |
| 7.41c | 53.72% | ▲ +1.7pp | 12,670 |
| 7.41b | 52.06% | — | 14,566 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.