How Lion and Riki perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lion and Riki win 50.11% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 16,418 matches.
Finding yourself silenced inside a Smoke Screen means Lion's follow-up stuns are almost guaranteed to land. Riki sets up the kill zone with his cloud, and Lion provides the hard lockdown with Earth Spike and Hex, holding a target in place for Riki to secure the kill. This makes their ganks on a single hero quite straightforward to execute, as the target has few options to fight back or escape once the initial silence is applied.
The effectiveness of this duo drops off when opponents start moving as a group. Their entire game plan revolves around finding pickoffs, but it offers very little against a five-man push. Both Riki and Lion are also quite squishy, and a failed gank attempt can easily turn into two deaths if the target’s allies react quickly. This makes their success dependent on the enemy team's positioning, rather than their own raw power.
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 | 50.55% | 1,187 |
| Crusader & Archon | 49.04% | 2,561 |
| Legend & Ancient | 48.70% | 1,879 |
| Divine & Immortal | 46.00% | 500 |
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 | 50.11% | ▼ -0.2pp | 16,418 |
| 7.41d | 50.32% | ▼ -1.6pp | 201,352 |
| 7.41c | 51.92% | ▲ +0.3pp | 103,287 |
| 7.41b | 51.66% | — | 95,211 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.