How Clinkz and Dragon Knight perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Clinkz and Dragon Knight win 49.51% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,646 matches.
Drafting these two heroes together often means committing to a single-target pickoff strategy. In theory, the combination is straightforward: Dragon Knight provides a reliable stun with Dragon Tail, setting up an easy target for Clinkz to burst down with his physical damage. This works well for assassinating a key hero before a fight begins. The weakness of this plan is that it's very one-dimensional. Both heroes focus heavily on bringing down one enemy, and they lack the area-of-effect control or teamfight-sustaining abilities needed to handle a coordinated push or a well-positioned group of enemies.
During the mid-game, Dragon Knight and Clinkz can secure map control by finding these isolated kills. Dragon Knight can safely push a tower, baiting a response that Clinkz can punish from invisibility. The game becomes much harder once opponents start moving as a unit. Clinkz struggles to attack into multiple heroes, and while Dragon Knight is durable in his Elder Dragon Form, he can't hold the enemy team's attention by himself. The success of the lane really depends on whether they can snowball from early pickoffs before the five-on-five brawls begin, making it an inconsistent pairing.
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 | 49.50% | 299 |
| Crusader & Archon | 51.68% | 416 |
| Legend & Ancient | 48.25% | 228 |
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 | 49.51% | ▲ +0.1pp | 2,646 |
| 7.41d | 49.39% | ▼ -1.9pp | 30,078 |
| 7.41c | 51.28% | ▲ +2.1pp | 17,491 |
| 7.41b | 49.20% | — | 19,481 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.