How Terrorblade and Venomancer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Terrorblade and Venomancer win 43.82% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,839 matches.
Trying to lock down an opponent for a kill highlights the core problem here. Venomancer can apply a huge amount of slows and damage over time with his poisons, but he offers no stuns. An enemy hero can often teleport out or use a mobility spell to escape before Terrorblade can finish them off with right-clicks. This is especially true outside of Metamorphosis. Their kits also want to win fights in opposite ways. Terrorblade needs to burst a key target within his transformation's duration, while Venomancer excels at dragging fights out to let Poison Nova do its work across the entire enemy team.
This clash in tempo leaves the team feeling disjointed. The draft lacks a hero who can reliably start a fight and hold people down, forcing the Terrorblade player into a more passive game since he can't count on his team to set up easy kills. The enemy team can exploit this by grouping up and running at either hero before they're ready to fight. Without strong initiation or hard control, this duo often finds itself reacting to the enemy's aggression rather than setting the pace of the game themselves.
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 | 45.64% | 241 |
| Crusader & Archon | 42.69% | 424 |
| Legend & Ancient | 40.43% | 282 |
| Divine & Immortal | 43.70% | 119 |
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% | ▲ +0.3pp | 2,839 |
| 7.41d | 43.57% | ▼ -1.9pp | 38,279 |
| 7.41c | 45.45% | ▼ -0.4pp | 20,399 |
| 7.41b | 45.81% | — | 24,674 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.