How Night Stalker and Primal Beast perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41f, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Night Stalker and Primal Beast win 52.19% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,447 matches.
Choosing a core that can survive their ganks is a real challenge. Night Stalker excels at finding an isolated hero at night and applying Crippling Fear, which prevents any spell-based escape. This opening silence gives Primal Beast a free window to charge in with Onslaught, often from off-screen. Once he arrives, the target is usually chain-stunned with Pulverize before the silence even wears off. The combination of control and burst damage is overwhelming. By the time the first night hits, there are very few safe places on the map for the enemy team to farm, as this duo can cover huge distances to secure a kill.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Legend & Ancient | 49.07% | 108 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41f | 52.19% | ▼ -0.5pp | 3,447 |
| 7.41e | 52.67% | ▲ +1.4pp | 10,067 |
| 7.41d | 51.22% | ▼ -3.1pp | 11,508 |
| 7.41c | 54.37% | — | 6,526 |
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Data updated Oct 5, 2026.