How Dark Willow and Phantom Lancer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dark Willow and Phantom Lancer win 51.29% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 815 matches.
Trying to set up kills for Phantom Lancer in a teamfight feels like a standard support job. Dark Willow can certainly lock a target down with Bramble Maze or Cursed Crown, giving him a window to attack. However, Phantom Lancer is already excellent at sticking to his own targets using Spirit Lance and Phantom Rush, and he generates his own chaos with illusions. While Willow’s magical damage from Bedlam and Shadow Realm helps diversify the team’s output, her abilities don't offer anything uniquely required by Phantom Lancer; her contribution is helpful, but not a special combination.
Throughout the game, the two heroes often operate on separate tracks. In lane, Dark Willow provides decent control to help secure farm, but Phantom Lancer is a self-sufficient hero who is mainly focused on reaching his own item timings. As the game progresses, their impact doesn't truly stack. Willow wants to use her spells to control fights or find pickoffs, while PL wants to find an opening to overwhelm a single hero. The success of the duo relies more on general team coordination than on any specific interaction between them.
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 | 52.60% | 384 |
| Crusader & Archon | 48.35% | 786 |
| Legend & Ancient | 47.41% | 559 |
| Divine & Immortal | 53.53% | 269 |
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 | 51.29% | ▲ +0.1pp | 815 |
| 7.41d | 51.21% | ▲ +0.1pp | 63,723 |
| 7.41c | 51.08% | ▼ -0.1pp | 28,333 |
| 7.41b | 51.15% | — | 29,095 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.