How Dragon Knight and Nature's Prophet perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dragon Knight and Nature's Prophet win 48.59% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 461 matches.
Trying to take objectives with this duo often feels like the team is being pulled in two directions. Dragon Knight wants to group up and methodically siege towers during his Elder Dragon Form timing. He’s a walking battering ram. At the same time, Nature's Prophet wants to use his Teleportation and Treants to apply pressure across the map, forcing rotations and chipping away at undefended buildings. Their game plans don't align. Dragon Knight needs his team with him to be effective, while Prophet's entire kit encourages him to play away from his team.
This conflict comes to a head in the mid-game. When Dragon Knight is ready to push, the team is often forced to commit as a smaller unit because Nature's Prophet is pushing a different lane. This leaves the main group vulnerable to being outnumbered and engaged on. The enemy team can simply choose to either gank the solo Prophet or force a favorable fight against the rest of your team. The result is a lack of coordinated pressure, making it hard to convert advantages into objectives before the enemy team's cores come online.
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 | 46.97% | 330 |
| Crusader & Archon | 42.35% | 595 |
| Legend & Ancient | 47.65% | 361 |
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 | 48.59% | ▲ +5.4pp | 461 |
| 7.41d | 43.16% | ▼ -0.6pp | 49,400 |
| 7.41c | 43.80% | ▲ +0.4pp | 24,296 |
| 7.41b | 43.42% | — | 25,375 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.