How Gyrocopter and Phantom Lancer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Gyrocopter and Phantom Lancer win 47.04% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 270 matches.
Gyrocopter’s ideal teamfight involves hitting the entire enemy team with Flak Cannon at once. Phantom Lancer, however, wants to create a chaotic, drawn-out battle where his illusions can overwhelm individual targets. This fundamental conflict in fighting style points to a much bigger problem: they both want to be the team's primary carry. Forcing them onto one team creates a massive resource competition for lane and jungle farm. Neither offers the kind of lockdown or early pressure the other needs to get ahead, often resulting in two under-farmed cores who can't execute their own game plan, let alone support each other's.
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 | 38.97% | 136 |
| Crusader & Archon | 44.41% | 295 |
| Legend & Ancient | 45.24% | 210 |
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 | 47.04% | ▼ -0.0pp | 270 |
| 7.41d | 47.05% | ▲ +0.3pp | 23,101 |
| 7.41c | 46.79% | ▲ +1.2pp | 10,415 |
| 7.41b | 45.58% | — | 11,085 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.