How Dark Seer and Ringmaster perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41f, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Dark Seer and Ringmaster win 47.94% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 11,740 matches.
Picking Dark Seer alongside Ringmaster often leaves a draft feeling redundant. Both heroes excel at manipulating enemy positions, but their methods can conflict. A good Vacuum can easily pull targets away from where Ringmaster wants them for his traps or crowd control. Furthermore, Dark Seer's game plan relies on Ion Shell and Surge to create chaos and enable an aggressive front-liner. Ringmaster is more of a stationary controller and isn't the ideal partner to carry the shell into a fight. They both provide the setup for a big teamfight combo but lack the innate damage to capitalize on each other's abilities, resulting in a composition that feels incomplete.
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 | 50.63% | 239 |
| Legend & Ancient | 47.03% | 455 |
| Divine & Immortal | 52.10% | 309 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41f | 47.94% | ▲ +0.4pp | 11,740 |
| 7.41e | 47.50% | ▲ +1.2pp | 35,087 |
| 7.41d | 46.27% | ▼ -0.2pp | 18,134 |
| 7.41c | 46.47% | — | 4,616 |
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Data updated Oct 5, 2026.