How Huskar and Slark perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Huskar and Slark win 43.02% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 4,967 matches.
Facing this duo means you're constantly under pressure from two aggressive, single-target cores. Both Huskar and Slark want to run at heroes, get early kills, and snowball out of control. The core issue is that they have very similar game plans but don't enable each other. Huskar wants to break a fight open with Life Break and have his team follow up, but Slark is a self-sufficient hunter. He prefers to weave through a fight with Shadow Dance, building Essence Shift on his own terms rather than protecting a low-health ally.
This leaves them competing for the same farm and the same type of isolated targets. In the mid-game, you’ll often see one hero having a great game while the other struggles to find their footing. A successful Huskar is pushing towers and forcing the enemy to react, which can be awkward for a Slark who wants to find pickoffs on the edge of the map. They function like two separate carries playing their own game, and if one falls behind, the other rarely has the tools to help them recover.
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 | 44.06% | 438 |
| Crusader & Archon | 46.60% | 824 |
| Legend & Ancient | 43.40% | 583 |
| Divine & Immortal | 45.81% | 155 |
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 | 43.02% | ▼ -1.3pp | 4,967 |
| 7.41d | 44.28% | ▼ -3.9pp | 68,466 |
| 7.41c | 48.18% | ▼ -0.3pp | 50,743 |
| 7.41b | 48.50% | — | 59,406 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.