How Doom and Huskar perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Doom and Huskar win 40.97% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,038 matches.
Picking both Doom and Huskar puts your team's strategy into a very tight box. Both heroes want to be the single-target raid boss who runs at one enemy and removes them from the fight. When Huskar uses Life Break on a target, he needs saves or follow-up stuns to finish the job and survive. Doom's ultimate doesn't provide either; it's another big single-target spell that does a similar job. This functional overlap means you're often using two major cooldowns to solve one problem, leaving the rest of the enemy team free to react.
The resulting game plan becomes predictable. Huskar hits his early item timings and wants to force fights, while Doom is looking to do the same once he has his ultimate ready. Enemies can see this coming and prepare with items like Spirit Vessel or sources of disarm. Without strong wave clear or layered crowd control from these two cores, the team can struggle to take objectives if the initial aggression fails. You end up with two heroes who excel at shutting down the same type of enemy, but don't cover each other's very different weaknesses.
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 | 37.50% | 144 |
| Crusader & Archon | 44.44% | 270 |
| Legend & Ancient | 31.17% | 231 |
| Divine & Immortal | 34.68% | 124 |
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 | 40.97% | ▼ -0.9pp | 2,038 |
| 7.41d | 41.87% | ▼ -4.3pp | 32,798 |
| 7.41c | 46.16% | ▲ +0.3pp | 20,270 |
| 7.41b | 45.83% | — | 22,759 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.