How Invoker and Skywrath Mage perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Invoker and Skywrath Mage win 50.04% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 22,515 matches.
Playing with both these heroes on a team often creates a very greedy draft. Both Invoker and Skywrath Mage need a lot of levels and a good start to be effective, which can strain a team's resources and map control. While their abilities can line up for a kill, it's a very specific kind of threat. The Cold Snap setup for Skywrath's spells is powerful, but both heroes offer a similar flavor of single-target magic burst damage. This leaves the team composition vulnerable, often lacking reliable stuns, initiation, or the ability to push towers, making it hard to convert kills into objectives.
A successful game for this pair requires them to dominate their respective lanes and get early kills. If they get ahead, they can roam together and delete almost any hero they find. An Invoker who sets up kills with his spells allows Skywrath Mage to unload Mystic Flare without any trouble. However, if this duo falls behind, they don't offer much. They are both fragile, easy to focus in fights, and struggle to contribute when playing from a deficit. It puts a lot of pressure on the early game to go perfectly.
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 | 51.38% | 1,232 |
| Crusader & Archon | 49.72% | 3,415 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.30% | 2,838 |
| Divine & Immortal | 51.19% | 1,010 |
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 | 50.04% | ▼ -0.2pp | 22,515 |
| 7.41d | 50.20% | ▼ -0.6pp | 243,374 |
| 7.41c | 50.77% | ▲ +0.6pp | 124,857 |
| 7.41b | 50.17% | — | 124,023 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.