How Doom and Skywrath Mage perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Doom and Skywrath Mage win 45.33% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 7,988 matches.
Trying to kill a target with this pairing often feels inefficient. Doom's ultimate prevents a hero from using spells or items, but it does nothing to stop their movement. This is a problem for Skywrath Mage, as his Mystic Flare requires the target to stay in a small area to take its full effect. A Doomed enemy can often walk away from the damage, wasting Skywrath's primary contribution. The silence from Doom also overlaps with the one from Ancient Seal, making the combination feel redundant instead of powerful.
This lack of hard lockdown means the pair is still reliant on a third hero to provide a stun or root for Skywrath's spells to connect properly. Without it, Doom can find he's used his ultimate on a key target, only for that hero to survive because Skywrath couldn't land his damage. Instead of creating a clean kill, they often find themselves using two major ultimates for a single, uncertain outcome, leaving the rest of their team at a disadvantage in the ensuing 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 | 51.94% | 360 |
| Crusader & Archon | 43.66% | 1,127 |
| Legend & Ancient | 45.52% | 1,026 |
| Divine & Immortal | 45.41% | 414 |
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 | 45.33% | ▼ -0.5pp | 7,988 |
| 7.41d | 45.86% | ▲ +0.2pp | 104,780 |
| 7.41c | 45.66% | ▲ +0.7pp | 40,679 |
| 7.41b | 44.99% | — | 47,464 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.