How Drow Ranger and Outworld Destroyer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Drow Ranger and Outworld Destroyer win 49.21% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 9,943 matches.
Pairing these two cores for mixed damage can feel like a solid plan, but they don't really enable each other. Outworld Destroyer’s Astral Imprisonment offers a single-target setup, but that’s the extent of their offensive interaction. Drow Ranger needs space to keep her Marksmanship active and deal damage from a distance, and OD doesn't provide the frontline or area control to guarantee that. Instead, you have two fragile, position-dependent heroes who both want to sit in the back. This means your team composition can end up feeling one-dimensional and easy to break if the enemy can close the gap.
Fights often play out with both Drow and OD scrambling for a safe spot to contribute from. While a well-timed Astral can save Drow, it also takes her out of the fight entirely. Their success depends heavily on the other three heroes providing all the initiation and lockdown. Without a very durable frontline to create chaos and absorb pressure, aggressive enemy lineups can simply run at your backline. The duo isn't non-functional, it just creates a draft that needs very specific support to not fall apart.
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 | 43.67% | 458 |
| Crusader & Archon | 50.35% | 1,436 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.06% | 1,219 |
| Divine & Immortal | 51.60% | 376 |
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 | 49.21% | ▼ -2.2pp | 9,943 |
| 7.41d | 51.37% | ▲ +0.6pp | 103,618 |
| 7.41c | 50.82% | ▲ +2.4pp | 41,401 |
| 7.41b | 48.45% | — | 33,947 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.