How Drow Ranger and Phantom Lancer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Drow Ranger and Phantom Lancer win 42.94% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 326 matches.
A core part of Drow Ranger's value comes from her Marksmanship aura, which gives a significant boost to allied ranged heroes. Since Phantom Lancer is a melee hero, he gets no benefit from this ability. This creates a composition where one of the team's main damage dealers is missing out on a major steroid that Drow provides. While her Frost Arrows can help Phantom Lancer stick to targets, the lack of synergy with her ultimate means a key component of her kit isn't being fully leveraged by one of her cores.
This dynamic can lead to a slightly disjointed game plan. Both Drow Ranger and Phantom Lancer are farm-hungry heroes, and they may end up competing for safe areas of the map to accelerate their item progression. In fights, Drow prefers to hit from a safe distance while Phantom Lancer needs to dive into the enemy team to create illusion chaos. Their objectives aren't directly opposed, but they don't naturally support each other's ideal positioning, forcing the team to play around two separate focal points rather than one unified threat.
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 | 48.06% | 412 |
| Crusader & Archon | 42.12% | 406 |
| Legend & Ancient | 45.79% | 107 |
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 | 42.94% | ▼ -5.9pp | 326 |
| 7.41d | 48.89% | ▲ +0.2pp | 42,397 |
| 7.41c | 48.68% | ▲ +1.5pp | 21,038 |
| 7.41b | 47.22% | — | 19,570 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.