How Night Stalker and Troll Warlord perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41f, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Night Stalker and Troll Warlord win 53.42% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 8,506 matches.
Getting caught at night by this pair is a rough experience. Night Stalker forces darkness and hits a target with Crippling Fear, taking away their spells and ability to escape. That’s the opening Troll Warlord needs to close the distance and start hitting. Once Troll gets his melee root, it's very difficult for that single target to get away. The whole game plan revolves around Night Stalker setting up these perfect man-fight scenarios that Troll loves, especially once he has Battle Trance available. The combination doesn't offer a lot of utility beyond this single-target lockdown, so it doesn't solve all their problems, but it makes finding pickoffs much more reliable.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 56.02% | 241 |
| Legend & Ancient | 54.65% | 258 |
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 | 53.42% | ▼ -0.0pp | 8,506 |
| 7.41e | 53.43% | ▲ +0.9pp | 24,431 |
| 7.41d | 52.53% | ▼ -0.3pp | 23,397 |
| 7.41c | 52.82% | — | 12,186 |
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Data updated Oct 5, 2026.