How Crystal Maiden and Dawnbreaker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Crystal Maiden and Dawnbreaker win 54.27% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,828 matches.
Thinking you can dive a lone Crystal Maiden is a common mistake against this pair. Her Frostbite holds you in place for the entire duration of Dawnbreaker's Solar Guardian arrival. Instead of an easy support kill, you find yourself stunned under a new enemy core with full health. Crystal Maiden’s Arcane Aura also solves many of Dawnbreaker’s early mana issues, letting her be much more aggressive in lane with her spell combos and keeping her ready to fight at a moment's notice.
This forces opponents to play with a constant awareness of Dawnbreaker's global presence. Picking off a seemingly out-of-position Crystal Maiden becomes a huge risk. The correct response is to commit overwhelming burst damage to kill her before Solar Guardian completes, or to have stuns and silences ready for when Dawnbreaker lands. Without that coordination, Dawnbreaker gets to start every fight by saving an ally and punishing the aggressor, which gives her team a massive head start.
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 | 57.75% | 561 |
| Crusader & Archon | 54.16% | 1,780 |
| Legend & Ancient | 54.97% | 1,579 |
| Divine & Immortal | 53.69% | 596 |
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 | 54.27% | ▲ +0.2pp | 1,828 |
| 7.41d | 54.11% | ▼ -0.6pp | 138,827 |
| 7.41c | 54.71% | ▼ -1.2pp | 84,554 |
| 7.41b | 55.90% | — | 72,592 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.