How Lycan and Winter Wyvern perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lycan and Winter Wyvern win 51.21% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 910 matches.
Using Cold Embrace to save a low-health Lycan often backfires, as he can't attack while healing and becomes immune to the physical damage from his own team. This core friction extends to teamfights. Winter Wyvern’s ultimate, Winter’s Curse, protects its main target from Lycan and his wolves, forcing his army to switch focus instead of bursting down the priority hero. While Winter Wyvern's slows can help Lycan stick to a target, their overall game plans simply don't align. One wants to control fights with spells from a distance, while the other wants to end them quickly with overwhelming physical force, leading to frequent miscoordination.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 47.10% | 138 |
| Divine & Immortal | 63.21% | 106 |
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 | 51.21% | ▲ +1.6pp | 910 |
| 7.41d | 49.58% | ▲ +0.0pp | 10,086 |
| 7.41c | 49.54% | ▲ +2.1pp | 5,353 |
| 7.41b | 47.47% | — | 4,030 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.