How Necrophos and Wraith King perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Necrophos and Wraith King win 56.33% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,400 matches.
Trying to focus down Wraith King first feels like the right call, but it's often a trap. The enemy team burns major cooldowns to kill him, only for Reincarnation to bring him right back into the fight. During that time, Necrophos is free to spam Death Pulse from the back, healing his team and wearing down the opposition. This creates a perfect scenario where the enemy is low on both health and spells when Wraith King stands up again. It puts them in an impossible position: either get cleaned up by a full-health carry or get finished off by a well-placed Reaper's Scythe.
This lets the pair play very aggressively from the mid-game. Wraith King can confidently front-line and force objectives, knowing he has both his own ultimate and Necrophos's sustain as a safety net. Fights become a war of attrition that they are built to win. The opponent's only real plan is to somehow pick off Necrophos before the engagement begins, or to have enough disengage to kite them until their resources run dry. That's a very difficult task when both heroes are so naturally durable and want to fight head-on.
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 | 61.66% | 1,218 |
| Crusader & Archon | 57.40% | 2,946 |
| Legend & Ancient | 55.94% | 2,154 |
| Divine & Immortal | 57.37% | 495 |
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 | 56.33% | ▼ -0.0pp | 2,400 |
| 7.41d | 56.35% | ▲ +1.1pp | 221,224 |
| 7.41c | 55.24% | ▲ +0.8pp | 103,932 |
| 7.41b | 54.40% | — | 100,452 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.