How Tusk and Windranger perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Tusk and Windranger win 47.24% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 9,328 matches.
Trying to chain their abilities together often feels awkward. Tusk can use Snowball to get on a target and set up a Walrus Punch, but this leaves Windranger with a poor angle for a good Shackleshot. Tusk's own body often blocks the latch, forcing a less reliable stun. While Ice Shards can create a wall to shackle to, it's slow and can easily trap the enemy in a way that makes it harder for Windranger to connect Focus Fire. Both heroes want to accomplish the same goal—single-target burst—but their toolkits don't combine smoothly to make it happen.
This results in a team composition that is very one-dimensional. The enemy team can anticipate your game plan of finding pickoffs and simply group up to nullify it. Without strong waveclear or sustained teamfight damage, a Tusk and Windranger draft struggles to take objectives even after a successful gank. They end up playing like two separate heroes trying to find kills, rather than a pair that enables each other. As the game progresses, their inability to create easy setups means they fall off against coordinated teams that can protect their cores and punish the lack of broader utility.
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 | 44.41% | 358 |
| Crusader & Archon | 47.06% | 1,090 |
| Legend & Ancient | 48.88% | 1,432 |
| Divine & Immortal | 49.16% | 956 |
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 | 47.24% | ▲ +1.1pp | 9,328 |
| 7.41d | 46.11% | ▼ -0.3pp | 97,464 |
| 7.41c | 46.36% | ▲ +0.2pp | 44,401 |
| 7.41b | 46.16% | — | 42,503 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.