How Dragon Knight and Mars perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dragon Knight and Mars win 46.73% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 995 matches.
Running these two together often makes the map feel small. Both Dragon Knight and Mars want to be the durable frontliner who farms the enemy jungle after taking the offlane tower. This creates a farm priority issue since they also want a Blink Dagger around the same time, which can slow down your team’s overall tempo. In teamfights, their core abilities don't really have a combo. Arena of Blood is great lockdown, but it doesn't do anything special to enable Dragon Knight's attacks or fire breath. You essentially have two heroes trying to do the same job, which usually leaves the draft feeling redundant and lacking in other key areas like damage or hard control.
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 | 45.86% | 133 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.01% | 151 |
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 | 46.73% | ▲ +0.5pp | 995 |
| 7.41d | 46.23% | ▼ -0.0pp | 13,767 |
| 7.41c | 46.26% | ▲ +0.4pp | 10,690 |
| 7.41b | 45.85% | — | 13,488 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.