How Terrorblade and Viper perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Terrorblade and Viper win 45.58% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,931 matches.
Facing this duo often feels like playing against a team with a split personality. Viper wants to win his lane hard and then immediately translate that into mid-game aggression, using his slows to control the tempo of fights. He creates a power spike that demands action. The issue is that Terrorblade is completely unable to join that fight. During the exact same period Viper is strongest, Terrorblade is at his most vulnerable, needing to farm critical items before he can safely contribute. This leaves their team with a core who wants to fight and a core who wants to hide, creating a strategic vacuum the enemy can easily exploit.
The game becomes a race against the clock for the opposing team. They know that Viper’s pressure is temporary and that the real threat, Terrorblade, is off the map. This allows them to either force fights their opponent can't fully commit to, or simply focus all their resources on finding and killing Terrorblade to delay his timing even further. If the game does go late, Terrorblade becomes a huge problem with Metamorphosis. However, this draft makes surviving the mid-game so difficult that the game is often decided long before Terrorblade gets a chance to come online.
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 | 41.41% | 297 |
| Crusader & Archon | 43.62% | 447 |
| Legend & Ancient | 42.01% | 219 |
| Divine & Immortal | 44.95% | 109 |
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 | 45.58% | ▲ +0.2pp | 2,931 |
| 7.41d | 45.36% | ▼ -0.1pp | 38,406 |
| 7.41c | 45.46% | ▼ -0.6pp | 18,507 |
| 7.41b | 46.04% | — | 17,811 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.