How Skywrath Mage and Tinker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Skywrath Mage and Tinker win 43.82% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 728 matches.
Competing for the same resources slows down the entire team. Both Tinker and Skywrath Mage are incredibly greedy heroes who need a lot of gold and solo experience to hit their critical item timings. When they share a map, they are constantly taking farm from one another, meaning neither hero gets online as quickly as they should. Their damage is also almost entirely magical. This makes it very straightforward for the enemy team to build items that counter both of them at once, like a Pipe of Insight, severely reducing their impact.
This draft leaves the team vulnerable for a long stretch of the game. While Tinker is trying to secure his Boots of Travel, the team often lacks the power to defend towers or contest objectives. Skywrath can provide some burst, but without a strong initiator or frontline, he is easily focused down. Opponents exploit this by forcing fights and pushing early, knowing that the duo can't effectively respond together. The team is forced to play passively and hope to survive until their cores are farmed, which often comes too late.
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 | 46.69% | 362 |
| Crusader & Archon | 46.31% | 853 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.65% | 568 |
| Divine & Immortal | 33.33% | 201 |
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 | 43.82% | ▼ -2.0pp | 728 |
| 7.41d | 45.86% | ▲ +0.2pp | 65,431 |
| 7.41c | 45.68% | ▲ +0.5pp | 33,048 |
| 7.41b | 45.16% | — | 29,525 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.