How Keeper of the Light and Winter Wyvern perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Keeper of the Light and Winter Wyvern win 49.92% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,171 matches.
Landing a fully channeled Illuminate on targets clumped by Winter's Curse is the core of this pairing. Winter Wyvern provides the perfect setup, freezing a key hero and forcing their allies to gather around them for the duration. This gives Keeper of the Light a stationary, multi-hero target for his biggest damage spell, often from a safe distance. The effectiveness of this combination is quite situational, however. It relies on both ultimates being available and coordinated correctly. Outside of that specific interaction, their kits don't have a lot of natural overlap, which is why the pairing feels good when it works but isn't a consistently dominant strategy from the start of the game.
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 | 46.63% | 178 |
| Crusader & Archon | 51.43% | 385 |
| Legend & Ancient | 54.99% | 411 |
| Divine & Immortal | 57.71% | 253 |
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 | 49.92% | ▲ +0.3pp | 3,171 |
| 7.41d | 49.66% | ▼ -1.8pp | 34,706 |
| 7.41c | 51.47% | ▲ +0.3pp | 13,638 |
| 7.41b | 51.16% | — | 13,308 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.