How Lina and Terrorblade perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lina and Terrorblade win 46.63% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 6,714 matches.
Pairing these two cores feels like it should work, since you get a ton of damage. The problem is that their game plans are completely different. Lina wants to run around the map forcing kills with her magic burst as soon as she hits her ultimate. Terrorblade, on the other hand, needs to avoid all conflict and farm safely for a long time to build his core items. Lina provides almost no protection for him while he does this. She's another fragile, high-priority target herself, not a frontline hero or a defensive support who can keep a vulnerable carry like Terrorblade alive during early ganks.
This usually leads to the team getting split apart. Either Lina plays her own aggressive game and Terrorblade gets repeatedly picked off while farming alone, or she tries to babysit him and wastes her own mid-game power spike. An enemy team can punish this by constantly forcing fights before Terrorblade has Metamorphosis or key items online. By the time he's actually ready to join the team, Lina's magic damage is starting to fall off against enemy BKBs. Their timings are fundamentally misaligned, making it difficult to execute a clean game plan.
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 | 43.76% | 473 |
| Crusader & Archon | 46.35% | 1,014 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.58% | 777 |
| Divine & Immortal | 52.00% | 425 |
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 | 46.63% | ▲ +0.6pp | 6,714 |
| 7.41d | 46.07% | ▲ +0.3pp | 71,009 |
| 7.41c | 45.79% | ▲ +0.3pp | 29,781 |
| 7.41b | 45.50% | — | 26,823 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.