How Marci and Phantom Lancer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Marci and Phantom Lancer win 49.93% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 759 matches.
Trying to focus a Phantom Lancer who has Sidekick active can feel like a losing battle. The bonus lifesteal and damage make his main hero much harder to kill, which in turn gives him more time to create a swarm of durable illusions with Juxtapose. Marci provides a great initiation or peel tool with Dispose, tossing a key threat away to give PL the space he needs. If both heroes commit with Unleash active, they can overwhelm a single target with immense physical damage before help can arrive.
The lane's success, however, often depends on who gets the jump. Both Marci and Phantom Lancer are melee heroes who want to be in the middle of the fight. This pairing doesn't offer much to save PL from the area-of-effect control that typically counters him. Once Phantom Lancer gets locked down by stuns and silences, Marci's kit can't really pull him out. This makes the duo powerful when ahead but fragile from behind, as they lack a reliable defensive fallback plan if their initial aggression fails.
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 | 49.03% | 308 |
| Crusader & Archon | 49.41% | 676 |
| Legend & Ancient | 53.80% | 500 |
| Divine & Immortal | 45.50% | 189 |
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 | 49.93% | ▼ -1.1pp | 759 |
| 7.41d | 50.98% | ▼ -0.2pp | 50,892 |
| 7.41c | 51.14% | ▼ -0.2pp | 25,496 |
| 7.41b | 51.29% | — | 26,029 |
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Data updated Aug 12, 2026.