How Dragon Knight and Tidehunter perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dragon Knight and Tidehunter win 49.29% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,126 matches.
Pairing these two durable frontliners together seems like an obvious way to control teamfights. You get a massive wall of initiation that an enemy team can't ignore. Tidehunter can land a big Ravage, and Dragon Knight can follow up with his own stun and sustained fire damage while in Elder Dragon Form. The problem is that both heroes are doing a very similar job. They both want to absorb spells and disrupt the enemy, but neither brings significant burst to the table. This overlap can leave your team with two tanky anchors but not enough firepower to capitalize on the control they provide.
In practice, this duo’s success relies heavily on your other cores. If your carry and mid can output huge damage, then Tidehunter and Dragon Knight create all the space they could ever want. However, if the enemy draft is good at kiting or has strong saves, your initiation can fall flat. Ravage's duration gets spent with not enough damage going out, and then both heroes are left trying to slowly chase down targets. The entire game plan becomes conditional on having the perfect damage dealers to supplement this core, which doesn't always come together.
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 | 40.53% | 227 |
| Crusader & Archon | 49.55% | 333 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.52% | 210 |
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 | 49.29% | ▲ +1.7pp | 2,126 |
| 7.41d | 47.56% | ▼ -0.4pp | 24,641 |
| 7.41c | 47.99% | ▼ -1.1pp | 14,771 |
| 7.41b | 49.12% | — | 19,661 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.