How Slardar and Techies perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Slardar and Techies win 52.42% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 9,067 matches.
Setting up kills with this pair relies on Slardar's lockdown. A good Slithereen Crush holds an enemy in place long enough for Techies to land a Sticky Bomb and follow up with Blast Off!. While Corrosive Haze doesn't increase Techies' spell damage, the vision it provides is very helpful. It stops a target from juking into the trees to break line of sight, ensuring the full duration of Techies' spells can connect. This makes their gank attempts more reliable.
Across the game, this duo looks for pickoffs on isolated heroes. Slardar can sprint in to initiate, and the combination of his stuns and Techies' silence and slows makes it difficult for a single target to escape. The enemy team is forced to itemize against two different damage types—armor for Slardar's physical attacks and magic resistance for Techies' bombs. This split focus can leave them vulnerable to one hero or the other, giving your team a small but consistent advantage in skirmishes.
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 | 56.54% | 543 |
| Crusader & Archon | 50.57% | 1,319 |
| Legend & Ancient | 53.50% | 1,015 |
| Divine & Immortal | 47.87% | 328 |
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 | 52.42% | ▲ +1.2pp | 9,067 |
| 7.41d | 51.23% | ▼ -1.1pp | 108,154 |
| 7.41c | 52.35% | ▼ -1.6pp | 65,705 |
| 7.41b | 53.90% | — | 64,854 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.