How Night Stalker and Weaver perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Night Stalker and Weaver win 46.43% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 560 matches.
Picking these two heroes together can leave a team feeling disjointed in fights. Night Stalker wants to dive deep during the night, using Crippling Fear to isolate and silence a key enemy. He creates a very clear "go" signal for his team to burst a target down. Weaver, on the other hand, excels at skirmishing from the outside. His kit is built around mobility and sustained damage with Shukuchi, not front-loading burst onto a single controlled hero. He doesn't offer the kind of immediate follow-up that makes Night Stalker's initiations truly deadly.
In practice, this means Night Stalker often finds himself initiating alone. While he has a target locked down, Weaver may be hitting a different enemy or repositioning for safety, unable to commit to the dive without risking his own life. This forces the Weaver player into an awkward spot: either play too aggressively and risk dying without using Time Lapse, or play his own game and leave Night Stalker without the focused damage he needs. The pairing can feel like two solo artists playing on the same stage rather than a coordinated duo.
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 | 48.13% | 214 |
| Crusader & Archon | 46.69% | 544 |
| Legend & Ancient | 48.45% | 516 |
| Divine & Immortal | 44.32% | 185 |
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 | 46.43% | ▼ -2.8pp | 560 |
| 7.41d | 49.19% | ▲ +1.0pp | 51,758 |
| 7.41c | 48.18% | ▲ +0.8pp | 29,799 |
| 7.41b | 47.43% | — | 37,448 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.