How Muerta and Night Stalker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Muerta and Night Stalker win 47.03% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 387 matches.
Getting caught out at night by this pair feels helpless. Night Stalker creates the ideal hunting ground by reducing vision and applying a long silence with Crippling Fear. This gives Muerta a stationary, defenseless target to unload on. A silenced hero can't use spells to get away or disable Muerta during her ultimate, Pierce the Veil. While she's ethereal and immune to physical attacks, she can freely build up damage on the target Night Stalker has locked down, making escapes very unlikely for most heroes caught alone.
This duo’s strength revolves around the day-night cycle. The first night is their initial power spike, where they can start aggressively hunting and create a lead. Muerta can join Night Stalker's ganks to secure kills and accelerate her own farm. The enemy team’s main objective becomes survival; they need to stay grouped, place defensive vision, and avoid walking into dark areas of the map. If they can weather the nights and force fights during the day, they can mitigate the pressure and try to catch Muerta when her ultimate is down.
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 | 43.55% | 124 |
| Crusader & Archon | 46.65% | 343 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.24% | 414 |
| Divine & Immortal | 51.46% | 171 |
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 | 47.03% | ▼ -2.5pp | 387 |
| 7.41d | 49.53% | ▼ -1.4pp | 39,664 |
| 7.41c | 50.90% | ▼ -1.0pp | 27,953 |
| 7.41b | 51.95% | — | 31,083 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.