How Invoker and Night Stalker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Invoker and Night Stalker win 53.27% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 17,086 matches.
Thinking this pair is only about ganking with Sun Strike misses the real threat. The core of their strength is how Night Stalker's fast night-time attacks interact with Invoker's Cold Snap. Once that spell is on a target, Night Stalker's Hunter in the Night provides enough attack speed to trigger the mini-stuns constantly, holding a hero in place. Crippling Fear adds a silence on top of this, preventing the victim from using spells to escape the chain stuns and follow-up damage from Invoker.
The combo comes online as soon as the first night begins. Night Stalker can run at almost any target, using Void to slow them and set up an easy Cold Snap from Invoker. This forces opponents to play much more cautiously, often grouping up earlier than they'd like and slowing down their farm. The opposing team's objective becomes simply surviving the night, especially when Dark Ascension is available, while Invoker and Night Stalker want to keep the map dark and pick off anyone caught out of position.
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 | 47.88% | 518 |
| Crusader & Archon | 53.38% | 2,355 |
| Legend & Ancient | 52.91% | 2,746 |
| Divine & Immortal | 57.17% | 1,200 |
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 | 53.27% | ▼ -0.3pp | 17,086 |
| 7.41d | 53.59% | ▼ -0.5pp | 174,517 |
| 7.41c | 54.10% | ▲ +0.3pp | 88,584 |
| 7.41b | 53.84% | — | 84,088 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.