How Gyrocopter and Sniper perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Gyrocopter and Sniper win 47.68% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 776 matches.
Facing a team with both these heroes feels straightforward. You can just run at them. Neither Gyrocopter nor Sniper offers the lockdown or frontline presence that the other needs to survive. They are both fragile, item-dependent cores who want to deal damage from different positions. Gyrocopter needs to get in range for Rocket Barrage and Flak Cannon, while Sniper wants to stay as far back as possible. When one gets jumped, the other has no real way to peel or save them; they can only add more damage and hope it's enough, which it usually isn't.
This dynamic puts immense pressure on the rest of the draft to find initiation and durability. If your team can't provide a massive frontline and multiple stuns, the game becomes a constant struggle. Both Gyrocopter and Sniper need a lot of farm to come online, but they end up competing for the safest areas of the map since neither can make aggressive plays alone. This slows both of them down. An enemy team can exploit this by controlling the map, starving them of resources, and picking them off whenever they're forced to show in a lane.
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 | 42.65% | 422 |
| Crusader & Archon | 45.49% | 943 |
| Legend & Ancient | 42.70% | 644 |
| Divine & Immortal | 47.93% | 121 |
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 | 47.68% | ▲ +4.8pp | 776 |
| 7.41d | 42.91% | ▼ -1.9pp | 74,281 |
| 7.41c | 44.82% | ▲ +1.9pp | 35,483 |
| 7.41b | 42.87% | — | 37,734 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.