How Nature's Prophet and Skywrath Mage perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Nature's Prophet and Skywrath Mage win 46.42% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,006 matches.
Trying to combine for a gank often feels awkward. Skywrath Mage needs a long, reliable stun to guarantee his Mystic Flare connects, but Nature's Prophet's Sprout is not that. An enemy caught in the trees can often use spells or items to escape, or simply cut their way out before the full damage lands. This leaves Skywrath's biggest spell on cooldown without a kill. Both heroes are also fragile, so when a gank goes wrong, they lack the tools to save each other and can easily give up return kills.
This weak setup forces the two heroes to play separate games. Nature's Prophet will often resort to split-pushing and applying pressure away from his allies, which is his strength. However, this leaves Skywrath Mage without the initiator he needs to find kills and get ahead. The result is a team that struggles to fight together, with one hero pushing a lane and the other a vulnerable glass cannon waiting for a setup that his partner simply cannot provide reliably.
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 | 44.72% | 644 |
| Crusader & Archon | 42.77% | 1,244 |
| Legend & Ancient | 45.58% | 860 |
| Divine & Immortal | 39.86% | 286 |
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 | 46.42% | ▲ +3.5pp | 1,006 |
| 7.41d | 42.87% | ▼ -0.4pp | 114,288 |
| 7.41c | 43.32% | ▲ +0.2pp | 49,487 |
| 7.41b | 43.13% | — | 46,340 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.