How Dragon Knight and Viper perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dragon Knight and Viper win 48.95% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 5,132 matches.
Pushing into a Dragon Knight and a Viper feels like running into a wall of poison and fire. Their combined slows and damage over time make it very difficult to stand your ground and defend. Dragon Knight in his Elder Dragon Form provides a solid way to hit towers, and Viper's corrosive slows make it dangerous for any single hero to try and stop the push. The idea is to group up early and simply walk down a lane, forcing objectives before the enemy team is ready to fight.
The problem is that both heroes do a similar job without covering each other's weaknesses. They are both slow, front-lining cores who need items to become durable, and they lack strong, instant lockdown to kill mobile targets. If the early push gets stalled out, the draft feels very one-dimensional. Enemy teams can often exploit their low mobility by split-pushing or picking them off with better initiation. This leaves the Dragon Knight and Viper lineup struggling to create advantages if their initial game plan doesn't work.
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 | 47.35% | 471 |
| Crusader & Archon | 45.77% | 638 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.22% | 256 |
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 | 48.95% | ▲ +1.1pp | 5,132 |
| 7.41d | 47.88% | ▲ +0.1pp | 46,669 |
| 7.41c | 47.76% | ▲ +0.9pp | 22,698 |
| 7.41b | 46.85% | — | 24,780 |
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Data updated Aug 18, 2026.