How Dragon Knight and Magnus perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dragon Knight and Magnus win 50.36% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,491 matches.
Putting these two heroes together creates a straightforward, front-to-back teamfight plan. The core idea is for Magnus to use Empower on Dragon Knight, accelerating his farm and giving him a powerful cleave effect in fights. In theory, this is great; Dragon Knight is a durable hero who wants to stand his ground and hit people, and cleave helps him do that more effectively. A big Reverse Polarity can hold enemies in place for Dragon Knight to waddle in and chain his own stun. The synergy is simple and relies on buffing up a single, tanky core.
In practice, the success of this pairing is inconsistent. The entire strategy often comes down to Magnus landing a perfect ultimate. If Reverse Polarity connects, Dragon Knight can do his job. If it misses or the enemy has saves, Dragon Knight is often too slow to create a new opportunity and can be kited easily. Both heroes are heavily reliant on their long-cooldown ultimates. When Elder Dragon Form and Reverse Polarity are unavailable, the team can feel passive and lack the tools to force a fight or respond to aggression, creating predictable windows of weakness for the opponent to exploit.
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 | 50.62% | 162 |
| Crusader & Archon | 51.63% | 552 |
| Legend & Ancient | 48.36% | 550 |
| Divine & Immortal | 53.74% | 147 |
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 | 50.36% | ▲ +1.0pp | 3,491 |
| 7.41d | 49.36% | ▲ +0.5pp | 36,608 |
| 7.41c | 48.83% | ▲ +0.1pp | 19,344 |
| 7.41b | 48.71% | — | 23,123 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.