How Dawnbreaker and Riki perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dawnbreaker and Riki win 55.56% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 666 matches.
Finding an isolated hero is often all Riki needs to set up a kill. His Smoke Screen slows and silences a target, which makes it incredibly difficult for them to get out of the way when Dawnbreaker uses Solar Guardian to join the fight. The silence preventing escape spells combined with a slow trapping them in the landing zone creates highly reliable lockdown and burst from across the map.
Playing against this forces opponents to stay grouped and invest heavily in detection. Farming the outer lanes becomes a huge risk, as Riki can appear at any time to initiate for Dawnbreaker's global arrival. This constant pressure often translates into better map control and safer farm for your own team. The main counter-play involves trying to burst Riki before Solar Guardian lands, or using strong defensive saves to survive the initial impact and turn the fight.
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 | 60.83% | 240 |
| Crusader & Archon | 52.86% | 664 |
| Legend & Ancient | 58.14% | 547 |
| Divine & Immortal | 47.89% | 190 |
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 | 55.56% | ▲ +0.8pp | 666 |
| 7.41d | 54.73% | ▼ -1.6pp | 56,629 |
| 7.41c | 56.30% | ▼ -0.4pp | 36,832 |
| 7.41b | 56.72% | — | 29,754 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.