How Dark Seer and Slardar perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dark Seer and Slardar win 40.16% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 122 matches.
Pairing these two often means your Slardar can delay his Blink Dagger for a more aggressive item. Dark Seer's Surge provides all the mobility Slardar needs to get on top of a priority target and apply Corrosive Haze. Once he's in, a well-placed Ion Shell melts anyone caught in the initial Slithereen Crush or a follow-up Vacuum. It turns Slardar from a simple initiator into a continuous, high-speed threat that the enemy team has to constantly respect, even before he has his core items. This lets your team play at a much faster pace and force objectives early.
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 | 39.51% | 162 |
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 | 40.16% | ▼ -8.7pp | 122 |
| 7.41d | 48.82% | ▼ -3.8pp | 13,417 |
| 7.41c | 52.65% | ▼ -2.4pp | 7,631 |
| 7.41b | 55.07% | — | 7,118 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.