How Necrophos and Silencer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Necrophos and Silencer win 52.24% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 23,511 matches.
Teamfights under a Global Silence are the perfect setup for Necrophos to thrive. Enemies are completely locked out of their defensive spells, healing abilities, and escapes, leaving them vulnerable. This allows Necrophos to walk up to a low-health target and land a clean Reaper's Scythe without any risk of the target being saved or blinking away. The combined sustained damage from Silencer's spells and Heartstopper Aura also puts heroes into Scythe's execution range much more quickly, creating kill opportunities where there otherwise wouldn't be any.
Once both heroes have their ultimates, the enemy team is forced to play on the back foot. The threat of this combination makes grouping for objectives extremely dangerous for them. Their main counterplay is to either get an early jump on Silencer before he can press his ultimate or to rush Black King Bars across their cores, which can delay their own timings. If the enemy team can't find that initiation, Necrophos and Silencer can dictate the pace of the mid-game, turning any skirmish into a decisive pick-off that secures a won teamfight.
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 | 57.60% | 1,257 |
| Crusader & Archon | 53.82% | 3,887 |
| Legend & Ancient | 52.13% | 3,071 |
| Divine & Immortal | 50.96% | 836 |
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 | 52.24% | ▼ -1.6pp | 23,511 |
| 7.41d | 53.86% | ▲ +0.1pp | 285,897 |
| 7.41c | 53.71% | ▲ +0.1pp | 131,393 |
| 7.41b | 53.61% | — | 108,649 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.