How Techies and Viper perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Techies and Viper win 49.19% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 8,207 matches.
Picking Techies with a friendly Viper seems straightforward: Viper’s slows should hold enemies on your mines. In practice, the heroes have conflicting goals. Viper wants to melt enemies over time with spells like Nethertoxin, while Techies is about instant burst from a mine stack. The immediate detonation can feel like it wastes Viper's sustained damage potential. Since neither hero provides a hard stun to truly lock a target down, the combo feels less than certain against anyone with an escape.
This dynamic plays out across the game. The pair can make an area dangerous, but they often struggle to turn that control into confirmed kills. An enemy clipped by a mine and slowed by Viper often has enough time to react and get away before either hero can finish the job. Both Techies and Viper are good at making a patch of ground miserable, but they lack the tools to force a fight there. Cautious opponents will often play around their setups, avoiding the trap entirely.
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 | 50.34% | 731 |
| Crusader & Archon | 48.62% | 1,195 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.98% | 612 |
| Divine & Immortal | 51.60% | 188 |
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 | 49.19% | ▲ +0.6pp | 8,207 |
| 7.41d | 48.62% | ▼ -0.4pp | 106,822 |
| 7.41c | 48.99% | ▼ -1.1pp | 56,028 |
| 7.41b | 50.09% | — | 58,117 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.