How Hoodwink and Winter Wyvern perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Hoodwink and Winter Wyvern win 46.27% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,443 matches.
Struggling to build an early gold lead often comes down to this duo's conflicting spell timings. Winter's Curse gathers enemies and demands immediate, focused damage on a single target. Hoodwink's primary burst, Sharpshooter, needs to be channeled and aimed, making it difficult to coordinate with the short duration of the curse. The setup for Bushwhack can also be unreliable in the chaos. Furthermore, a defensive Cold Embrace on Hoodwink will interrupt her Sharpshooter channel, potentially wasting her most significant contribution to a fight. These small moments of anti-synergy add up.
This pairing can lead to a passive game where neither hero can reliably create kills. While Winter Wyvern sets up a target, Hoodwink is often still trying to find the right angle or charge her ultimate. The enemy gets to play more spread out, knowing that this duo lacks a clean, instant initiation-and-burst combo. As a result, the game can slow down, allowing opponents to secure their own farm and objectives. The combination feels less than the sum of its parts, as both heroes want to control a fight in slightly different ways.
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 | 47.37% | 190 |
| Crusader & Archon | 45.59% | 487 |
| Legend & Ancient | 48.20% | 444 |
| Divine & Immortal | 55.02% | 249 |
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 | 46.27% | ▲ +0.3pp | 3,443 |
| 7.41d | 45.96% | ▼ -2.5pp | 41,922 |
| 7.41c | 48.44% | ▼ -0.1pp | 23,671 |
| 7.41b | 48.57% | — | 20,210 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.