How Legion Commander and Riki perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Legion Commander and Riki win 55.04% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 9,189 matches.
Finding yourself suddenly Dueled is bad enough, but seeing Riki's Smoke Screen appear on top makes it a death sentence. The silence prevents any spell or item escape, and the miss chance neuters any physical damage you might have hoped to deal back to Legion Commander. Riki can then freely add his own damage with Blink Strike while Legion gets a clean Duel victory. It’s a simple but brutal ganking setup that locks down a single target with very little room for counterplay from the victim.
This pattern repeats all over the map once the laning stage breaks down. Riki provides the scouting and initiation, finding isolated heroes for Legion Commander to jump on. The enemy team is forced to play defensively, grouping up and spending a lot of gold on Sentry Wards to avoid feeding away Duel damage. If they can't establish vision control and stick together, Legion will quickly snowball out of control off the back of Riki's setup, making later teamfights nearly impossible to win.
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 | 57.20% | 743 |
| Crusader & Archon | 52.60% | 1,576 |
| Legend & Ancient | 55.86% | 972 |
| Divine & Immortal | 56.78% | 199 |
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 | 55.04% | ▲ +0.9pp | 9,189 |
| 7.41d | 54.16% | ▼ -1.2pp | 114,430 |
| 7.41c | 55.36% | ▲ +0.8pp | 56,974 |
| 7.41b | 54.59% | — | 56,091 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.