How Dragon Knight and Spectre perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dragon Knight and Spectre win 53.10% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 612 matches.
Thinking of this duo as a coordinated chase combo is a common mistake. Dragon Knight isn’t meant to keep up with a Haunt across the map. Instead, he excels at creating the exact situations Spectre preys on. Dragon Tail offers a long, simple lockdown on any hero caught out of position, making them a free kill for Spectre. More broadly, Dragon Knight is so tough to kill that he can walk into the enemy team and demand their full attention, leaving their vulnerable backline completely open for Spectre to isolate and eliminate.
This dynamic defines the mid-game. Dragon Knight can pressure a tower, forcing the other team to respond. If they commit multiple heroes to stop him, Spectre can use Haunt to turn the fight and clean up. If they don't send enough people, he takes the objective for free. The opponent is put in a constant bind, forced to split their focus. Their only real plan is to try and shut down Spectre’s farm very early, because once she has her core items, the space Dragon Knight creates becomes impossible to manage.
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 | 48.52% | 338 |
| Crusader & Archon | 54.92% | 732 |
| Legend & Ancient | 60.39% | 457 |
| Divine & Immortal | 54.29% | 105 |
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 | 53.10% | ▼ -1.9pp | 612 |
| 7.41d | 55.03% | ▲ +0.4pp | 51,591 |
| 7.41c | 54.59% | ▲ +1.6pp | 25,460 |
| 7.41b | 53.04% | — | 25,198 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.