How Dawnbreaker and Lich perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dawnbreaker and Lich win 55.74% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,715 matches.
A big teamfight breaks out and Dawnbreaker channels Solar Guardian on a teammate in the middle of it. The landing creates a huge stun zone, locking down several enemies at once. This gives Lich the perfect window to use Chain Frost. With the targets stuck in place, they can't spread out to dodge the bounces, and the ultimate rips through their health bars. Dawnbreaker is then free to clean up with Starbreaker on the survivors, who are often slowed and damaged enough that they can't escape.
The threat of this combination forces enemies to play apart from each other, which makes it harder for them to take objectives or focus a single target. The primary goal for Dawnbreaker and Lich is to force these clustered fights. To counter this, you need excellent vision to see the Solar Guardian coming and split up before she lands. Trying to burst the relatively fragile Lich before he can get his spells off is also critical. If he's out of the picture, Dawnbreaker's initiation loses most of its follow-up damage and becomes far less scary.
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 | 56.01% | 366 |
| Crusader & Archon | 55.39% | 1,363 |
| Legend & Ancient | 54.09% | 1,588 |
| Divine & Immortal | 55.13% | 682 |
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 | 55.74% | ▲ +2.0pp | 1,715 |
| 7.41d | 53.78% | ▼ -0.5pp | 132,344 |
| 7.41c | 54.28% | ▼ -0.0pp | 86,118 |
| 7.41b | 54.29% | — | 69,544 |
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Data updated Aug 12, 2026.