How Medusa and Techies perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Medusa and Techies win 51.93% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 414 matches.
Picking these two heroes is a commitment to building a fortress. Medusa excels in static teamfights where she can stand her ground and use Split Shot, but she's often vulnerable to being overrun. Techies directly solves this by turning Medusa's chosen fighting spot into a minefield. Any hero attempting to dive and burst her has to walk through Proximity Mines to do it, making it a suicidal play. This forces the enemy to fight on her terms, letting her leverage Mana Shield and wear them down from a safe position.
The game plan is straightforward. Techies makes the map dangerous and buys space for Medusa to farm safely in the early game. Once she comes online, the duo becomes an unbreakable defensive unit. Pushing high ground into a farmed Medusa is already one of the hardest things to do in the game; adding a full spread of mines to that defense makes it nearly impossible. The enemy is forced to spend resources and attention on demining, giving your team all the time needed to react and win the fight.
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 | 47.37% | 209 |
| Crusader & Archon | 48.06% | 516 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.72% | 360 |
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 | 51.93% | ▼ -0.7pp | 414 |
| 7.41d | 52.65% | ▼ -0.8pp | 48,704 |
| 7.41c | 53.46% | ▼ -1.4pp | 31,071 |
| 7.41b | 54.90% | — | 33,524 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.