How Clinkz and Riki perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Clinkz and Riki win 46.86% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,817 matches.
Putting two heroes that rely on invisibility on one team creates a very specific, high-risk game plan. Clinkz and Riki both want to do the same thing: find isolated targets and burst them with physical damage. This redundancy means your draft can lack lockdown, magical damage, and a solid frontliner. Neither hero can effectively save the other if one gets caught. Riki’s Smoke Screen is the one piece of utility that can help, providing a silence and miss chance that gives Clinkz a safer window to use Burning Barrage, but it's a minor overlap.
The success of this pairing comes down to whether you can execute that ganking strategy before the enemy counters it. Your team aims to create constant map pressure, forcing opponents to play scared and split up. If you get a few early kills, you can snowball hard. The problem is, the opponent’s path to victory is clear: group up, buy detection, and force fights. Once they start moving as five, it becomes extremely difficult for either Clinkz or Riki to find a good opening, and your team's lack of traditional teamfight control gets exposed.
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 | 43.51% | 308 |
| Crusader & Archon | 43.34% | 383 |
| Legend & Ancient | 44.64% | 233 |
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 | 46.86% | ▼ -0.7pp | 2,817 |
| 7.41d | 47.53% | ▼ -0.5pp | 36,549 |
| 7.41c | 48.06% | ▼ -1.4pp | 19,043 |
| 7.41b | 49.48% | — | 19,794 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.