How Huskar and Venomancer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Huskar and Venomancer win 43.04% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 4,045 matches.
Fighting with both these heroes on a team creates a core tension in how you want a battle to unfold. Huskar is all about using Life Break to jump deep, get his health low for Berserker's Blood, and win a fight fast and hard. He commits everything to a single target. Venomancer, on the other hand, wants the opposite. His spells, especially Poison Nova, are designed to slowly drain the entire enemy team over a long, drawn-out engagement from a safe distance. Huskar often ends up isolated after he leaps, disconnected from the kiting game Venomancer is trying to play.
This clash in tempo makes their mid-game plan awkward. Huskar is looking for aggressive pickoffs to secure Roshan, but Venomancer's slow-burn damage doesn't provide the burst needed to finish those targets. Enemies can often survive the initial jump and simply walk away. Since both heroes rely heavily on magic damage over time, opponents can also build early magic resistance to blunt the impact of two cores at once. Huskar is left without the quick backup he needs, and Venomancer’s delayed impact isn't enough to save him.
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 | 39.59% | 394 |
| Crusader & Archon | 43.93% | 651 |
| Legend & Ancient | 40.83% | 338 |
| Divine & Immortal | 41.18% | 102 |
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 | 43.04% | ▲ +1.5pp | 4,045 |
| 7.41d | 41.54% | ▼ -2.9pp | 56,074 |
| 7.41c | 44.48% | ▼ -1.8pp | 37,627 |
| 7.41b | 46.32% | — | 50,288 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.