How Dragon Knight and Lina perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dragon Knight and Lina win 48.30% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 7,900 matches.
Trying to burst a single target with this pair looks straightforward on paper. Dragon Knight can lock someone down with Dragon Tail, giving Lina a clear setup for Light Strike Array and her full combo. The issue is that their fundamental game plans are at odds. Dragon Knight wants to be a durable frontline hero, pushing into the enemy team and hitting buildings with Elder Dragon Form. Lina, on the other hand, is a fragile caster who needs to maintain significant distance to survive and cast her spells. They perform similar roles as mid-game tempo cores but from opposite sides of a fight, creating a positional clash.
This disconnect becomes obvious during teamfights and pushes. When Dragon Knight sieges a tower, Lina is forced to stand very far back, unable to contribute safely if the enemy initiates. In a full-blown fight, one of them is almost always in the wrong place. If Dragon Knight charges in, he leaves Lina completely unprotected and vulnerable. If the team instead plays defensively around Lina, Dragon Knight isn't able to use his natural tankiness to create space. They often feel like two solo heroes competing for farm and focus fire, rather than a pair covering each other's backs.
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 | 47.62% | 630 |
| Crusader & Archon | 49.37% | 1,428 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.72% | 895 |
| Divine & Immortal | 53.16% | 237 |
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 | 48.30% | ▲ +0.4pp | 7,900 |
| 7.41d | 47.90% | ▲ +1.5pp | 75,953 |
| 7.41c | 46.37% | ▲ +0.9pp | 33,001 |
| 7.41b | 45.48% | — | 36,147 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.