How Clinkz and Slardar perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Clinkz and Slardar win 49.86% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 5,399 matches.
Picking up both these heroes commits you to a very specific game plan. Slardar can find an isolated target and apply Corrosive Haze, and his Slithereen Crush provides the lockdown Clinkz needs to safely unload a full Burning Barrage. The armor reduction makes Clinkz's already high physical damage feel overwhelming for any single hero caught out of position. This makes for a simple but effective hunting duo, able to secure early kills and apply pressure across the map.
The strength of this pairing is finding those pickoffs and snowballing the advantage. The problem is that both heroes are focused on that single goal. If the enemy team identifies this and starts grouping up early, the duo's effectiveness can diminish. Slardar and Clinkz excel at deleting one hero, but they can struggle against coordinated teamfights or strong defensive saves that protect their initial target. This makes their success conditional on being able to execute their ganking plan before the enemy can properly react to it.
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 | 46.15% | 442 |
| Crusader & Archon | 48.10% | 815 |
| Legend & Ancient | 48.90% | 589 |
| Divine & Immortal | 51.57% | 223 |
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 | 49.86% | ▲ +0.1pp | 5,399 |
| 7.41d | 49.81% | ▼ -2.1pp | 61,033 |
| 7.41c | 51.88% | ▼ -0.7pp | 32,507 |
| 7.41b | 52.56% | — | 35,335 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.