How Dark Seer and Troll Warlord perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dark Seer and Troll Warlord win 54.00% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,626 matches.
Choosing to pair these two heroes centers on a simple, but sometimes fragile, game plan. The obvious play is putting Surge and Ion Shell on Troll Warlord, letting him run down targets with immense speed. This helps him stick to enemies and build up attack speed stacks before he needs to use his ultimate. However, the synergy can feel a bit one-dimensional. Once Troll Warlord activates Battle Trance, he becomes uncontrollable, which can make Dark Seer's attempts to reposition him with a well-timed Surge less impactful. The combination leans heavily on that initial gap-close, and if the fight gets complicated, their kits don't offer much else for each other.
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 | 58.24% | 182 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.03% | 126 |
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 | 54.00% | ▲ +3.6pp | 1,626 |
| 7.41d | 50.40% | ▼ -0.1pp | 11,798 |
| 7.41c | 50.46% | ▼ -0.8pp | 4,784 |
| 7.41b | 51.29% | — | 4,180 |
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Data updated Aug 18, 2026.