How Lion and Tusk perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lion and Tusk win 46.02% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 12,720 matches.
Ganking a single target with this pair often feels like you have too many buttons for one job. Lion brings Earth Spike and Hex for lockdown, and Tusk comes with Snowball and Walrus PUNCH. Both heroes excel at catching and bursting an isolated enemy. The problem is that their abilities overlap more than they complement each other. Chaining all that control on one hero is frequently overkill, and you're left with two supports who have spent all their major spells for a single kill, which may not be enough to turn a fight.
The game plan for a Lion and Tusk duo is to get ahead with aggressive roaming. The kill potential is definitely there in the early game. Trouble starts when the enemy team begins to group up. Neither hero provides much sustained damage or large-scale control for five-on-five fights, so you're banking everything on getting those initial pick-offs. If the enemy plays safe and forces teamfights, the combined impact of this pair can feel a little underwhelming, as all their single-target burst struggles against a coordinated push.
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 | 40.16% | 493 |
| Crusader & Archon | 43.87% | 1,883 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.53% | 2,220 |
| Divine & Immortal | 47.28% | 939 |
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 | 46.02% | ▲ +0.4pp | 12,720 |
| 7.41d | 45.67% | ▼ -2.0pp | 145,033 |
| 7.41c | 47.62% | ▲ +0.5pp | 76,263 |
| 7.41b | 47.16% | — | 78,025 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.