How Chen and Phantom Lancer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Chen and Phantom Lancer win 47.80% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 703 matches.
Picking Chen alongside Phantom Lancer creates a slight tension in the team's game plan. On one hand, Chen provides sustain for the main hero and his army with Hand of God, and Penitence is a solid tool to help Phantom Lancer's illusions converge and melt a single target. The two can coordinate for ganks this way. The core issue, however, lies in their preferred timings and map movements. Chen wants to group with his creeps and force objectives early, creating deathball pressure. This is precisely when Phantom Lancer needs to be farming key items in a safe lane, not fighting. By the time he comes online, Chen’s own peak impact has often started to fade, leaving their windows of power misaligned.
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 | 41.74% | 115 |
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 | 47.80% | ▼ -0.4pp | 703 |
| 7.41d | 48.20% | ▼ -1.1pp | 8,854 |
| 7.41c | 49.28% | ▲ +1.5pp | 4,586 |
| 7.41b | 47.80% | — | 4,644 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.