How Skywrath Mage and Terrorblade perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Skywrath Mage and Terrorblade win 48.60% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 5,000 matches.
Trying to set up kills in the mid-game often feels awkward. Skywrath Mage provides a silence and a lot of magic damage, but he lacks a hard stun to truly lock down a target for Terrorblade. The main issue is that Skywrath’s Ancient Seal only amplifies magic damage, offering no benefit to Terrorblade's physical attacks. This leaves the duo without a core synergistic combo. Skywrath can slow a target, but he can't protect his carry or meaningfully boost his damage output during a critical Metamorphosis.
The game plan for each hero tends to pull the team in opposite directions. Skywrath Mage wants to fight constantly from the moment he gets his ultimate, looking for pickoffs across the map. Meanwhile, Terrorblade needs space and time to farm his core items and is often not ready for those early fights. This forces Terrorblade to play a much riskier game, farming alone while his support is playing for tempo. If the enemy team groups up and pressures him, Skywrath doesn't have the tools to peel or save him effectively.
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 | 49.77% | 442 |
| Crusader & Archon | 44.64% | 728 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.40% | 498 |
| Divine & Immortal | 51.54% | 227 |
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 | 48.60% | ▲ +1.0pp | 5,000 |
| 7.41d | 47.56% | ▼ -0.6pp | 61,651 |
| 7.41c | 48.18% | ▲ +1.2pp | 28,526 |
| 7.41b | 47.01% | — | 27,168 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.