How Sand King and Silencer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Sand King and Silencer win 49.61% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 5,972 matches.
A fully channeled Epicenter is often the goal for Sand King, but a single stun can ruin it. Silencer's Global Silence provides a clean, guaranteed window to get the spell off from a Blink Dagger initiation. Once the targets are slowed and damaged by the quake, Silencer can easily layer on Arcane Curse and his own attacks to help secure kills. The setup is straightforward but effective for taking control of a teamfight.
The main drawback is the reliance on two long-cooldown ultimates. When Global Silence isn't available, Sand King and Silencer don't have much natural synergy in their kits. Sand King might be focused on farming jungle stacks with Sand Storm while Silencer wants to pressure a lane. Opponents can play around this by tracking the major cooldowns and forcing fights when they know the big combo is offline, which prevents the duo from consistently controlling the game's tempo.
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 | 53.83% | 379 |
| Crusader & Archon | 47.26% | 912 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.50% | 671 |
| Divine & Immortal | 43.59% | 195 |
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 | 49.61% | ▼ -0.7pp | 5,972 |
| 7.41d | 50.32% | ▲ +1.2pp | 71,777 |
| 7.41c | 49.08% | ▼ -2.0pp | 35,925 |
| 7.41b | 51.10% | — | 47,496 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.