How Outworld Destroyer and Venomancer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Outworld Destroyer and Venomancer win 51.28% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 5,566 matches.
Facing this pair can feel like a slow, painful grind. Venomancer applies his slows and poisons, softening up the whole enemy team and making it easier for Outworld Destroyer to chase and finish someone off with Arcane Orb. The issue is they can feel redundant. Both heroes rely heavily on magic damage, making it straightforward for opponents to itemize against them. Outworld Destroyer’s Astral Imprisonment can also be awkward, sometimes saving a target from poison damage rather than setting up a kill for his ally.
Their game plan revolves around using Venomancer's slows to control a fight while Outworld Destroyer picks off key targets. The main weakness is a lack of hard lockdown; slippery heroes can often get away even when slowed. An enemy team will often buy a Pipe of Insight and focus on bursting one hero down before the other can react. This lineup struggles against teams that can survive the initial wave of spells and then turn the fight around, making the duo's impact feel a bit diluted.
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 | 49.00% | 300 |
| Crusader & Archon | 53.20% | 876 |
| Legend & Ancient | 47.32% | 746 |
| Divine & Immortal | 51.49% | 202 |
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 | 51.28% | ▲ +4.1pp | 5,566 |
| 7.41d | 47.19% | ▲ +0.6pp | 54,022 |
| 7.41c | 46.58% | ▼ -0.6pp | 27,303 |
| 7.41b | 47.15% | — | 38,632 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.