How Dawnbreaker and Morphling perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dawnbreaker and Morphling win 46.80% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 641 matches.
Saving a Morphling who has shifted deep into agility is the main idea here. Dawnbreaker can use Solar Guardian on him from anywhere on the map, providing a heal and a landing stun that can turn a gank completely. This gives Morphling a window to use Attribute Shift to regain his health and survive situations that would otherwise be certain death. The problem is timing. If the enemy team has instant disables or a quick silence, Morphling can be locked down and killed before Dawnbreaker's ultimate even has a chance to land. It relies on the enemy not having the right tools for a quick execution.
This creates a specific game plan where Morphling is encouraged to farm aggressively and split the map, trusting that Dawnbreaker provides a global safety net. Meanwhile, the enemy team will adapt their strategy to focus on bursting Morphling with coordinated stuns and silences, trying to kill him before the Solar Guardian's effect can save him. The success of this duo often comes down to whether the enemy can execute their gank faster than Dawnbreaker can react, making the whole plan feel very conditional and dependent on the drafts.
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 | 51.81% | 166 |
| Crusader & Archon | 46.96% | 494 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.09% | 550 |
| Divine & Immortal | 52.12% | 259 |
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 | 46.80% | ▼ -2.1pp | 641 |
| 7.41d | 48.86% | ▼ -1.3pp | 49,974 |
| 7.41c | 50.17% | ▲ +0.6pp | 23,171 |
| 7.41b | 49.59% | — | 22,242 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.