How Enigma and Magnus perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Enigma and Magnus win 47.42% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 4,477 matches.
Farming for two big initiators puts a huge strain on your team's map control. Both Enigma and Magnus need a Blink Dagger to be effective, and they often want to farm the same parts of the map to get it. This slows down their timings and leaves the team vulnerable. Their core teamfight spells, Black Hole and Reverse Polarity, also fill a very similar role. Landing a perfect ultimate from one hero is usually enough to win a fight, so having both can feel redundant. It's a lot of investment for an effect that doesn't stack well.
This pairing forces a passive early game while trying to find enough space for both heroes to get online. The enemy team gets a wide window to apply pressure, take towers, and build a lead. If the combo fails to connect perfectly in the mid-game, the fight is often lost because so much was invested into that one moment. Smart opponents will recognize this and play spread out, making it difficult to catch multiple heroes in Reverse Polarity or Black Hole and weakening the whole strategy.
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 | 42.54% | 228 |
| Crusader & Archon | 47.85% | 767 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.91% | 648 |
| Divine & Immortal | 59.61% | 203 |
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 | 47.42% | ▲ +0.3pp | 4,477 |
| 7.41d | 47.13% | ▲ +0.1pp | 46,798 |
| 7.41c | 47.08% | ▲ +0.6pp | 20,917 |
| 7.41b | 46.51% | — | 20,483 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.