How Lina and Warlock perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lina and Warlock win 49.89% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 14,072 matches.
Drafting these two heroes together feels like a choice between two different game plans. Warlock excels in drawn-out teamfights, spreading damage across multiple heroes with Fatal Bonds and his Golem from Chaotic Offering. He wants enemies to live long enough for his damage-over-time effects to work. Lina, on the other hand, is built to find a key target and instantly remove them from the fight with Light Strike Array and Laguna Blade. Her goal is to shorten the fight by creating a numbers advantage immediately.
This tension means one hero's ultimate often undermines the other's. If Lina bursts a target linked by Fatal Bonds, she's not getting the full value of Warlock’s spell, which works best when damaging multiple heroes over time. If she waits for Warlock’s spells to soften everyone up, the window for a clean pickoff might close. While Warlock can set up a fight, he doesn't provide the instant lockdown Lina needs to reliably land her own combo, leading to moments where their contributions don't quite sync up.
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 | 52.63% | 857 |
| Crusader & Archon | 51.24% | 2,254 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.92% | 1,691 |
| Divine & Immortal | 49.13% | 519 |
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 | 49.89% | ▲ +0.8pp | 14,072 |
| 7.41d | 49.12% | ▲ +1.0pp | 134,791 |
| 7.41c | 48.11% | ▲ +0.8pp | 53,849 |
| 7.41b | 47.36% | — | 59,145 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.