How Nature's Prophet and Viper perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Nature's Prophet and Viper win 43.84% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 739 matches.
Playing for map control with these two often feels like pulling in opposite directions. Viper’s entire game plan is to crush a single lane, break passives with Nethertoxin, and then force the issue by grouping up to take objectives. He wants the team to play around his early strength. Nature's Prophet, however, excels at creating pressure across the entire map, using Teleportation to farm aggressively and split-push. His goal is to stretch the enemy thin and avoid full-on teamfights until he has his core items. Their fundamental approaches to the game are simply at odds with each other.
This strategic clash becomes a problem after the laning stage. Viper will be ready to fight and push down a tower, but Nature's Prophet is likely on the opposite side of the map hitting creeps, contributing only his ultimate. The window of opportunity created by Viper’s lane dominance often closes before Prophet is ready to join and have a major impact. The team ends up fractured, unable to commit to either Viper’s mid-game deathball or Nature's Prophet's split-pushing game, leaving the other three players caught in the middle and unsure of how to play.
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 | 42.51% | 654 |
| Crusader & Archon | 42.16% | 918 |
| Legend & Ancient | 43.13% | 517 |
| Divine & Immortal | 50.00% | 144 |
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 | 43.84% | ▲ +1.7pp | 739 |
| 7.41d | 42.12% | ▼ -0.6pp | 93,696 |
| 7.41c | 42.71% | ▼ -0.0pp | 43,313 |
| 7.41b | 42.72% | — | 42,011 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.