How Kez and Troll Warlord perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Kez and Troll Warlord win 42.59% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 108 matches.
Opponents often find this lineup straightforward to deal with, as it puts two similar heroes into the same basket. Kez and Troll Warlord both want to be the team's primary right-clicking core, which creates immediate competition for farm and map space. In teamfights, their strengths don't combine well. Both are powerful duelists who excel at chasing down a single enemy, but neither provides the lockdown or setup the other needs to get started. With Troll Warlord committed by Battle Trance and Kez looking for his own target, the team's damage becomes split and uncoordinated. This makes it easy for enemies to kite them or simply walk past them to attack the backline.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 48.51% | 101 |
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 | 42.59% | ▼ -5.1pp | 108 |
| 7.41d | 47.69% | ▲ +0.3pp | 10,232 |
| 7.41c | 47.41% | ▲ +0.3pp | 6,634 |
| 7.41b | 47.16% | — | 5,333 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.