How Dark Seer and Dragon Knight perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dark Seer and Dragon Knight win 48.90% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,000 matches.
Facing down a Surged Dragon Knight with an Ion Shell feels like a classic problem. He's fast, tanky, has a reliable stun, and burns everyone he runs at. Dark Seer's Vacuum can also set up Dragon Knight's area-of-effect attacks in Elder Dragon Form, making for a solid teamfight pairing. The weakness is that both heroes are fairly straightforward and can be played around. They rely on sustained damage rather than burst, and if the enemy team has good disengage or can kite them, the whole plan falls apart. It’s a momentum-based combination that can struggle to come back from a bad start, leaving the duo feeling disjointed if they don't get an early lead.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 54.05% | 148 |
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 | 48.90% | ▲ +1.5pp | 1,000 |
| 7.41d | 47.40% | ▼ -0.8pp | 11,639 |
| 7.41c | 48.18% | ▼ -1.5pp | 5,149 |
| 7.41b | 49.65% | — | 5,158 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.