How Razor and Venomancer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Razor and Venomancer win 48.78% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 6,240 matches.
Placing Razor and Venomancer on the same team often creates a lineup that lacks a critical element: burst damage. Venomancer is great at weakening an entire team with Poison Nova, setting them up for a hero who can quickly finish them off. Razor, however, delivers his damage over time. He needs to stay connected with Static Link or chase a target with Eye of the Storm to be effective. This timing mismatch gives enemies affected by Nova a window to use defensive items, get healed, or simply walk away before Razor's damage becomes lethal.
This dynamic leads to indecisive teamfights. Even after a great Poison Nova, Razor can only focus on one target, leaving the other weakened enemies free to fight back or disengage. The opposing team can often absorb the initial damage, regroup, and then punish the lack of hard lockdown. Their combined plan relies more on slowly grinding the enemy down, a strategy that is easily countered by team-wide healing or magic resistance. The pairing struggles to secure control of a fight and has trouble closing out games from a lead.
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 | 48.42% | 475 |
| Crusader & Archon | 54.82% | 954 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.77% | 650 |
| Divine & Immortal | 42.68% | 164 |
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 | 48.78% | ▲ +1.8pp | 6,240 |
| 7.41d | 47.00% | ▲ +1.4pp | 71,193 |
| 7.41c | 45.64% | ▼ -1.3pp | 33,187 |
| 7.41b | 46.89% | — | 51,848 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.