How Medusa and Phantom Lancer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Medusa and Phantom Lancer win 40.56% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 143 matches.
Having both these heroes on one team often starves the map of farm. Medusa and Phantom Lancer both fill the same role: a hard carry who needs several expensive items before they can reliably contribute to fights. This creates a huge window of weakness where the team can't contest objectives or properly defend against early aggression. The enemy gets to set the pace of the game, because waiting for both cores to come online is simply too slow. Neither hero offers the early control or ganking power needed to create space for the other, leaving big gaps in the lineup's timing and overall capability.
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 | 33.82% | 136 |
| Crusader & Archon | 41.04% | 134 |
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 | 40.56% | ▼ -5.9pp | 143 |
| 7.41d | 46.48% | ▲ +0.7pp | 12,688 |
| 7.41c | 45.81% | ▼ -1.6pp | 7,435 |
| 7.41b | 47.36% | — | 7,845 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.