How Dragon Knight and Tiny perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dragon Knight and Tiny win 43.27% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 245 matches.
Picking these two heroes together creates a lineup that's often too one-dimensional. Both Dragon Knight and Tiny are typically slow, tanky, melee initiators who want to occupy the same space in a fight. Their stuns, like Dragon Tail and the Avalanche-Toss combo, tend to overlap on a single target rather than enabling a wider team play. Neither hero provides the mobility or catch that the other one desperately needs. This redundancy means they share the same weaknesses and can be easily countered by the same heroes and items that punish slow, straightforward front-liners.
The game plan for a team with both Dragon Knight and Tiny often funnels into a single strategy: group up and push. While they are both excellent at taking towers, this approach is predictable and easy to play against. Opponents will exploit the lack of map pressure by split-pushing or kiting them endlessly in teamfights, bleeding them of resources. Without a way to force favorable engagements or adapt to a mobile enemy, the composition struggles to secure a lead and often finds itself unable to close out the game, even if they get ahead early.
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 | 35.20% | 179 |
| Crusader & Archon | 44.33% | 291 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.48% | 213 |
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 | 43.27% | ▼ -1.0pp | 245 |
| 7.41d | 44.23% | ▼ -1.6pp | 26,378 |
| 7.41c | 45.85% | ▲ +1.1pp | 18,261 |
| 7.41b | 44.79% | — | 22,075 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.