How Chen and Slark perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41f, from ranked matches.
As teammates
Together 46.78%
Win rate when Chen and Slark are on the same team, over 2,469 ranked matches (7.41f).
In Dota 2 7.41f, Chen and Slark win 46.78% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,469 matches.
Why this works
Playing for pickoffs with Slark can feel a bit disconnected from Chen's game plan. Chen excels when his team groups around his converted creeps to push towers, but Slark wants to hunt the edges of the map to build Essence Shift stacks. This tempo clash means they are not always on the same page. Slark's own healing from Shadow Dance also makes Chen's Hand of God less impactful for him personally, as he can often regen on his own by ducking out of vision. The lockdown from Penitence or a dominated creep can certainly set up a Pounce, but the heroes' core strategies tend to pull the team in different directions.
Chen + Slark across patches
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
7.41f
46.78%
▲ +1.7pp
2,469
7.41e
45.10%
▼ -0.1pp
5,845
7.41d
45.18%
▼ -0.6pp
7,026
7.41c
45.77%
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4,252
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