What's strong right now

The heroes and lane partners doing best for each role in recent high-rank games and tournaments, with this patch's changes.

Hero guides

What's strong right now

The heroes and lane partners doing best for each role in recent high-rank games and tournaments, with this patch's changes.

Hero guides

Latest patch: 7.41f, released Sep 15, 2026. Public stats cover recent games and may include some from before it.

Right now

Top heroes: Hard support

Ranked by win rate at Ancient to Immortal and in this lane, with small samples pulled toward 50%, plus a small boost for heroes contested in tournaments.

Lane data is unavailable right now, so this list can't check which lane each hero is played in. It uses the hero's usual role instead.

1
Visage
54.9% win rate at high ranks · 16,764 games
Safe lane: lane data unavailable
Tournaments: 4 picks · 2 bans in 597 pro drafts (1% contested)
2
Dazzle
51.7% win rate at high ranks · 50,887 games
Safe lane: lane data unavailable
Tournaments: 110 picks · 114 bans in 597 pro drafts (38% contested)
3
Winter Wyvern
50.9% win rate at high ranks · 79,198 games
Safe lane: lane data unavailable
Tournaments: 194 picks · 162 bans in 597 pro drafts (60% contested)
4
Grimstroke
52.3% win rate at high ranks · 84,711 games
Safe lane: lane data unavailable
Tournaments: 43 picks · 29 bans in 597 pro drafts (12% contested)
5
Dark Willow
50.2% win rate at high ranks · 87,155 games
Safe lane: lane data unavailable
Tournaments: 253 picks · 224 bans in 597 pro drafts (80% contested)
6
Omniknight
52.3% win rate at high ranks · 21,887 games
Safe lane: lane data unavailable
Tournaments: 2 picks · 1 ban in 597 pro drafts (1% contested)
7
Lich
52.1% win rate at high ranks · 121,232 games
Safe lane: lane data unavailable
Tournaments: 30 picks · 4 bans in 597 pro drafts (6% contested)
8
Keeper of the Light
51.1% win rate at high ranks · 41,063 games
Safe lane: lane data unavailable
Tournaments: 49 picks · 156 bans in 597 pro drafts (34% contested)
9
Witch Doctor
51.1% win rate at high ranks · 136,622 games
Safe lane: lane data unavailable
Tournaments: 130 picks · 60 bans in 597 pro drafts (32% contested)
10
Phoenix
51.9% win rate at high ranks · 64,019 games
Safe lane: lane data unavailable
Tournaments: 15 picks · 16 bans in 597 pro drafts (5% contested)

High-rank and lane stats: OpenDota public games, updated 3h ago. Tournaments: 597 pro drafts in the last 21 days, updated 8h ago.

Patch 7.41f

Patch tips

What changed and what's moving for the top 5 heroes in this role.

Dazzle
- Contested in tournaments: picked or banned in 38% of 597 pro drafts over the last 21 days
Winter Wyvern
- Changed in 7.41f: Arctic Burn: Cooldown increased from 26/24/22/20s to 29/26/23/20s See all 2 changes
- Contested in tournaments: picked or banned in 60% of 597 pro drafts over the last 21 days
Dark Willow
- Contested in tournaments: picked or banned in 80% of 597 pro drafts over the last 21 days

Patch changes are Valve's original wording; open the patch page for the full notes.

Lane partners

Strongest lane duos

Two heroes from the same team sharing the safe lane, in pro matches over the last 60 days. Pairs with fewer than 8 games are left out.

Mirana + Lone Druid
83.3% win rate · 12 games
Lone Druid + Winter Wyvern
80.0% win rate · 15 games
Windranger + Witch Doctor
80.0% win rate · 10 games
Mirana + Sven
70.8% win rate · 24 games
Nature's Prophet + Techies
75.0% win rate · 12 games
Mirana + Kez
70.6% win rate · 17 games
Slark + Hoodwink
72.7% win rate · 11 games
Windranger + Techies
75.0% win rate · 8 games

Source: OpenDota pro match database, updated 8h ago.