How Death Prophet and Warlock perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Death Prophet and Warlock win 48.03% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,256 matches.
Drafting both Death Prophet and Warlock feels like you're committing your entire mid-game plan to a single big teamfight combo. On paper, Fatal Bonds followed by Chaotic Offering and Exorcism seems powerful. In practice, the two heroes have a lot of overlapping magical damage but very little lockdown. Once Warlock's initial stun from the golem wears off, enemies aren't held in place for Death Prophet's ghosts. Lacking a reliable stun or root from either hero means opponents can often survive the onslaught by simply walking or forcing themselves away.
This forces your team to play around a very predictable strategy. The enemy knows your win condition relies on landing a huge ultimate combination, so they can itemize against it effectively with magic resistance and mobility tools. Your teamfights become heavily reliant on Warlock landing a perfect ultimate, and if it doesn't happen, both heroes can feel underwhelming. For this pairing to work, you need other heroes on your team to provide the control that Death Prophet and Warlock are missing, otherwise the enemy can just split up and poke you out.
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 | 47.88% | 259 |
| Crusader & Archon | 49.39% | 490 |
| Legend & Ancient | 51.34% | 337 |
| Divine & Immortal | 46.67% | 105 |
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 | 48.03% | ▲ +1.5pp | 3,256 |
| 7.41d | 46.56% | ▼ -0.7pp | 41,199 |
| 7.41c | 47.22% | ▲ +0.4pp | 21,380 |
| 7.41b | 46.85% | — | 24,371 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.