How Doom and Night Stalker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Doom and Night Stalker win 44.17% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 120 matches.
Committing two heroes to single-target lockdown can feel redundant, but their kits provide a clear game plan. Night Stalker is the ideal hunter, using Dark Ascension to reduce enemy vision and find an isolated hero for his silence. This creates a perfect, uncontested opening for Doom to walk in and land his own ultimate on that same high-value target. Even if the enemy sees it coming, it’s extremely difficult to stop both heroes from disabling someone. While Night Stalker often has the tools to deal with Doom as an opponent, putting them together creates a very reliable way to secure pick-offs and start fights with an advantage.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Legend & Ancient | 49.53% | 107 |
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 | 44.17% | ▼ -4.7pp | 120 |
| 7.41d | 48.84% | ▼ -2.7pp | 12,867 |
| 7.41c | 51.53% | ▲ +0.4pp | 7,829 |
| 7.41b | 51.13% | — | 10,493 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.