How Juggernaut and Night Stalker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Juggernaut and Night Stalker win 52.70% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,647 matches.
Drafting this duo together signals a clear plan to dominate the first night cycle. Night Stalker is built to run at a single hero, using Crippling Fear's long silence to prevent any escape spells or stuns. This creates a perfect setup for Juggernaut to guarantee a full-duration Omnislash on a target that can't fight back or get away. The limited vision from Dark Ascension makes it even harder for the victim's allies to position correctly, ensuring the Omnislash damage isn't wasted on secondary targets and almost always results in a kill.
Once the first night hits, the enemy team is forced to play defensively and group up. Any hero farming alone is a potential victim for this combination, which allows Juggernaut and Night Stalker to control the map and starve their opponents. If the enemy team doesn't respect the threat, the pair can quickly snowball by repeatedly picking off key heroes. After a kill, Juggernaut's Healing Ward lets them immediately transition to taking a tower, turning their map control into a tangible lead.
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 | 47.72% | 482 |
| Crusader & Archon | 57.32% | 1,652 |
| Legend & Ancient | 54.92% | 1,770 |
| Divine & Immortal | 54.38% | 616 |
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 | 52.70% | ▼ -1.8pp | 1,647 |
| 7.41d | 54.49% | ▲ +0.0pp | 133,501 |
| 7.41c | 54.45% | ▲ +1.2pp | 69,129 |
| 7.41b | 53.23% | — | 65,773 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.