How Tusk and Winter Wyvern perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Tusk and Winter Wyvern win 49.06% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,230 matches.
Pairing these two heroes feels like it should be powerful, and sometimes it is. A good Winter's Curse can set up a free Walrus Punch for Tusk, leading to an easy kill. The problem comes from the rest of their kits. In the chaos of a fight, Winter Wyvern's instinct is to save a low-health ally with Cold Embrace. If that ally is Tusk, who has just dived in, it completely shuts down his physical damage from Tag Team and prevents him from right-clicking. This core conflict—Tusk wanting to fight and Wyvern wanting to protect with a spell that disarms—creates awkward moments that can lose a teamfight, making the pairing less reliable than you might think.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 47.75% | 289 |
| Legend & Ancient | 51.40% | 321 |
| Divine & Immortal | 54.26% | 258 |
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 | 49.06% | ▲ +1.8pp | 2,230 |
| 7.41d | 47.25% | ▼ -1.8pp | 24,673 |
| 7.41c | 49.05% | ▼ -1.0pp | 12,602 |
| 7.41b | 50.06% | — | 12,819 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.