How Dragon Knight and Lone Druid perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dragon Knight and Lone Druid win 47.30% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 869 matches.
Trying to siege high ground with this duo looks strong on paper. Both Dragon Knight and Lone Druid are raid bosses who excel at hitting buildings. Dragon Knight provides a long, reliable stun with Dragon Tail for the Spirit Bear to lock onto a defender, and both heroes can soak up a lot of punishment under towers. The issue is that they fill a very similar niche. They both provide durable, physical, front-line pressure and not much else. This often leaves the rest of the draft starved for magical damage, crowd control, and the ability to deal with mobile back-line heroes, making the whole strategy very predictable and easy to counter.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 42.31% | 182 |
| Legend & Ancient | 45.52% | 134 |
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 | 47.30% | ▲ +0.9pp | 869 |
| 7.41d | 46.43% | ▼ -1.3pp | 10,803 |
| 7.41c | 47.71% | ▼ -2.6pp | 7,883 |
| 7.41b | 50.28% | — | 12,137 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.