How Medusa and Slardar perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Medusa and Slardar win 50.19% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,405 matches.
Putting Corrosive Haze on multiple heroes lets Medusa’s Split Shot do its job much better. The armor reduction from Slardar's ultimate amplifies all of her physical damage, which really adds up when she's hitting the whole enemy team at once. His stun from Slithereen Crush also provides a reliable lockdown to hold targets in place for a few seconds. This gives Medusa a clean window to either use her own ultimate or simply right-click key targets down without them being able to easily escape.
The pairing relies on lining up their timings. Slardar wants to initiate as soon as he has his core items, looking for pickoffs and creating pressure. Medusa, on the other hand, usually needs more farm before she can safely commit to those kinds of fights. If Slardar has a good early game and Medusa can keep up her farm, they can control the mid-game. If Medusa falls behind or Slardar takes fights she can't join, the synergy doesn't get a chance to come together.
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 | 50.79% | 252 |
| Crusader & Archon | 45.00% | 540 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.12% | 403 |
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 | 50.19% | ▼ -0.0pp | 3,405 |
| 7.41d | 50.23% | ▼ -2.2pp | 43,082 |
| 7.41c | 52.45% | ▼ -0.4pp | 24,792 |
| 7.41b | 52.88% | — | 25,874 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.