How Troll Warlord and Venomancer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Troll Warlord and Venomancer win 49.04% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,218 matches.
Trying to lock down a mobile hero can be frustrating for this pair. Troll Warlord needs enemies to stay put so he can build Fervor stacks and hit them during Battle Trance. While Venomancer provides plenty of slows with his spells, this doesn't stop an opponent from using a Blink Dagger or a mobility spell to escape. The core issue is a lack of hard lockdown. A slow is helpful, but it's not the stun or root that a carry like Troll really needs to guarantee a kill on a priority target. The control they offer is redundant and doesn't solve Troll's main problem.
This weakness defines their game. In lane, they can harass well but often struggle to convert that pressure into kills. Later, Venomancer's Poison Nova can do a lot of setup damage across the enemy team before a fight, making Troll Warlord's job easier in a general sense. The problem comes when Troll commits his ultimate on a key hero. Without a stun from his lane partner, that enemy backliner can often be saved or reposition themselves. The duo functions, but it forces Troll to rely on other teammates for the control he needs to be truly effective.
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 | 54.10% | 329 |
| Crusader & Archon | 45.47% | 486 |
| Legend & Ancient | 48.28% | 290 |
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 | 49.04% | ▲ +1.2pp | 3,218 |
| 7.41d | 47.89% | ▼ -0.1pp | 38,334 |
| 7.41c | 48.00% | ▼ -1.0pp | 18,642 |
| 7.41b | 48.95% | — | 22,386 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.