How Morphling and Night Stalker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Morphling and Night Stalker win 50.71% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 495 matches.
Trying to coordinate an attack during the first nightfall often feels disjointed. Night Stalker wants to run at heroes immediately, using his ultimate to force fights across the map. He provides a silence with Crippling Fear, but it's not the hard lockdown Morphling needs to guarantee a full Adaptive Strike combo on a slippery target. Morphling is usually still focused on farming core items and isn't ready for the kind of chaotic, all-in brawls that Night Stalker excels at creating. Their timings are simply out of sync.
This dynamic leads to a split-pressure game that can easily backfire. While Night Stalker is creating space on one side of the map, the enemy team can recognize Morphling is the actual win condition and dedicate resources to shutting him down while he's isolated. The success of the duo often comes down to whether Night Stalker's aggression can build a big enough lead to offset the pressure being applied to his carry. It forces Morphling to play a much riskier game than he typically wants to.
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 | 45.53% | 123 |
| Crusader & Archon | 43.95% | 446 |
| Legend & Ancient | 53.40% | 470 |
| Divine & Immortal | 55.16% | 223 |
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 | 50.71% | ▲ +0.4pp | 495 |
| 7.41d | 50.35% | ▼ -0.0pp | 39,253 |
| 7.41c | 50.38% | ▲ +1.2pp | 15,585 |
| 7.41b | 49.15% | — | 17,430 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.