How Dawnbreaker and Earthshaker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dawnbreaker and Earthshaker win 53.18% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,288 matches.
Dropping Solar Guardian on an initiating Earthshaker is one of the strongest setups available. Once Shaker blinks into the enemy team, he becomes the perfect beacon for Dawnbreaker to join from anywhere on the map. This combination layers multiple area-of-effect stuns, starting with Fissure and Aftershock, followed immediately by the Solar Guardian landing. Anyone caught in the initial jump is often locked down for the entire duration, unable to escape the follow-up damage from both heroes.
This pairing creates immense global pressure once Earthshaker secures a Blink Dagger. A single hero farming a lane can suddenly find themselves chain-stunned by two heroes who weren't even visible a moment before. The enemy team is forced to group up and play defensively, respecting the duo's ability to punish anyone out of position. The main counterplay is to either burst Earthshaker before Dawnbreaker's channel completes or to use saves like a Force Staff to pull the target out, but successfully executing this in the chaos is difficult.
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 | 47.99% | 323 |
| Crusader & Archon | 53.56% | 1,109 |
| Legend & Ancient | 52.80% | 1,248 |
| Divine & Immortal | 55.95% | 538 |
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 | 53.18% | ▲ +0.3pp | 1,288 |
| 7.41d | 52.86% | ▼ -0.6pp | 98,757 |
| 7.41c | 53.48% | ▼ -0.1pp | 57,960 |
| 7.41b | 53.61% | — | 53,078 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.