How Keeper of the Light and Medusa perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Keeper of the Light and Medusa win 49.15% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,605 matches.
Picking these two heroes is a straightforward bet on a single resource. Keeper of the Light provides a constant stream of mana with Chakra Magic, which directly fuels Medusa's entire game. More mana means her Mana Shield stays up longer, she can use Split Shot to farm without returning to base, and she's always ready for a fight. This allows Medusa to accelerate her farm and hit her item timings much sooner than she otherwise could. Keeper of the Light can also use Illuminate to secure the lane and keep towers up, buying the necessary time for her to come online.
The success of this pairing depends entirely on surviving the early and mid-game. An aggressive enemy lineup will try to punish this passive combination, repeatedly ganking Medusa before she has the items to be truly tanky. Your goal is to create a stalemate, trading farm and defending towers until Medusa becomes a raid boss. The enemy's goal is to end the game before that happens. If the game stabilizes and goes late, having a nearly infinite mana pool makes Medusa incredibly difficult to bring down, but getting to that point is the real challenge.
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 | 48.82% | 211 |
| Crusader & Archon | 44.48% | 562 |
| Legend & Ancient | 44.85% | 466 |
| Divine & Immortal | 49.67% | 151 |
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 | 49.15% | ▼ -0.8pp | 3,605 |
| 7.41d | 49.92% | ▼ -0.1pp | 42,710 |
| 7.41c | 49.98% | ▼ -0.9pp | 17,963 |
| 7.41b | 50.90% | — | 19,097 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.