How Dragon Knight and Queen of Pain perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dragon Knight and Queen of Pain win 46.25% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 4,798 matches.
Grouping up for a mid-game push highlights the core conflict between these two heroes. Queen of Pain wants to play a fast, mobile game, using her Blink to find pickoffs on exposed targets across the map. Dragon Knight, on the other hand, defines his timing around Elder Dragon Form, wanting the team to group up for a slow, methodical push against towers. These two game plans rarely align. One hero wants to spread the map out and hunt, while the other wants to condense the team into a single lane and siege.
This means teamfights and objective pushes often feel disjointed. Queen of Pain might find an opening for a solo kill, but the slow-moving Dragon Knight is unable to follow up and convert that pickoff into a tower. Conversely, when the team commits to DK’s siege, QoP contributes her initial burst from Scream of Pain and Sonic Wave but then offers little sustained pressure. The team is forced to choose between two competing strategies, often leaving one of its core heroes unable to play to their strengths.
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 | 47.41% | 348 |
| Crusader & Archon | 44.06% | 799 |
| Legend & Ancient | 42.27% | 511 |
| Divine & Immortal | 42.06% | 107 |
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 | 46.25% | ▲ +0.5pp | 4,798 |
| 7.41d | 45.78% | ▲ +0.7pp | 56,749 |
| 7.41c | 45.09% | ▼ -2.0pp | 32,772 |
| 7.41b | 47.10% | — | 39,428 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.