How Viper and Visage perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Viper and Visage win 50.86% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,044 matches.
Securing a pickoff with this pair highlights their shared purpose. Viper can slow a key target with Viper Strike, making it simple for Visage and his Familiars to connect and finish the job. This single-target focus is strong for controlling the map during the mid-game. The issue is that both heroes essentially fill the same role: a tempo-setting core who excels with an early lead. This redundancy can leave their team short on other crucial elements, like hard initiation for teamfights or a hero who scales better into the late game. If Viper and Visage don't build a decisive advantage from their shared power spike, their combined impact tends to flatten out.
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 | 44.06% | 143 |
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 | 50.86% | ▲ +2.3pp | 1,044 |
| 7.41d | 48.52% | ▼ -0.5pp | 13,422 |
| 7.41c | 49.01% | ▼ -0.0pp | 6,909 |
| 7.41b | 49.04% | — | 7,168 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.