How Lion and Venomancer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lion and Venomancer win 46.95% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 16,692 matches.
Trying to secure a kill on a single target highlights the conflicting tempos of these two heroes. Lion brings chain stuns and burst damage with Finger of Death, designed to delete an enemy instantly. Venomancer, by contrast, excels at spreading damage over time across the entire enemy team with Poison Nova. This means Lion is trying to find a specific target to eliminate, while Venomancer's damage is already ticking on everyone, making it harder to set up a clean, decisive burst on one person.
This tension plays out in teamfights where the game plan can feel split. Lion hunts for a moment to use his disables and ultimate on a priority hero. Venomancer wants to infect as many people as possible and win a slow, drawn-out fight. While Lion's lockdown helps Venomancer land his spells, the team isn't committing to a single strategy. Fights are neither a fast pick-off nor a pure war of attrition, and that indecisiveness can be exploited.
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 | 47.76% | 938 |
| Crusader & Archon | 46.04% | 2,578 |
| Legend & Ancient | 45.25% | 1,998 |
| Divine & Immortal | 44.51% | 492 |
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 | 46.95% | ▲ +0.9pp | 16,692 |
| 7.41d | 46.00% | ▼ -1.2pp | 208,880 |
| 7.41c | 47.21% | ▼ -0.7pp | 114,125 |
| 7.41b | 47.94% | — | 150,023 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.