How Nature's Prophet and Sniper perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Nature's Prophet and Sniper win 44.74% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,739 matches.
Pairing Sprout with Sniper's long range feels like a natural fit for locking down targets. The problem is that Sprout offers no real stun and is easily broken, making it unreliable for setting up kills. Fundamentally, both heroes are fragile, want to stay far from fights, and need a strong frontline to play behind. Nature's Prophet can't peel for a focused Sniper, and Sniper can't save a caught Nature's Prophet. Instead of covering weaknesses, they share the same one: a deep vulnerability to being initiated on.
This forces the duo to play apart. Nature’s Prophet has to rely on split-pushing to create pressure, while Sniper must position extremely defensively, often too far back to contribute safely. An enemy team can easily identify this lack of a frontline and will repeatedly dive the back lines to shut them down. The game becomes a race for Sniper and Nature's Prophet to get key items before the enemy can capitalize on their combined fragility and take control of the map.
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 | 45.80% | 1,308 |
| Crusader & Archon | 42.24% | 2,448 |
| Legend & Ancient | 41.46% | 1,399 |
| Divine & Immortal | 44.31% | 334 |
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 | 44.74% | ▲ +2.5pp | 1,739 |
| 7.41d | 42.23% | ▼ -1.6pp | 215,442 |
| 7.41c | 43.79% | ▲ +0.9pp | 99,586 |
| 7.41b | 42.89% | — | 91,291 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.