By GamGem ResearchLast updated 27 Sept 2026
What changed
for my heroes
Personalized impact — Axe
league gamesHabit breaker: what pros buy now
AxeFinished items7.40 → 7.41League gamesBuild substitution ladder
7.40 → 7.41 · league gamesThe item pros bought less, then the two they bought more. Won-with rates are observational — a team ahead buys more.- 1
Vanguard31% → 14% of gamesWon with it55.7%Bought lessBought more - 2
Black King Bar50% → 79% of gamesWon with it55.3%Bought lessBought more - 3
Shiva's Guard2% → 25% of gamesWon with it68.2%Bought lessBought more
Ability changes (Axe)
Valve notes · 7.41BuffNerfUnchangedNo value change for Axe in the 7.41 notes — the lines below say what did change.
AI interpretationSources (5)Role & context
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Full patch notes (7.41) — source rows kept under every translation
Axe▲ 0▼ 0— 44 lines in 7.41: base stats, One Man Army, Culling Blade.- › Removed Coat of Blood innate ability
- › One Man Army: Now Axe's innate ability
- › One Man Army: Increases Axe's Strength by 50% of his armor, as long as there are no allied heroes within a 700 radius of him. The effect fades over 3s after an ally walks within range
- › Culling Blade: Now each hero kill made with Culling Blade provides a permanent stack, which provides 1/1.5/2 armor depending on the current level of Culling Blade
Drow Ranger▲ 0▼ 2— 810 lines in 7.41: base stats, Precision Aura, Frost Arrows, Gust …- › Base Damage decreased by 2
- › Damage at level 1 decreased from 51–58 to 49–56
- › Precision Aura: No longer levels with Marksmanship
- › Precision Aura: Agility Base Bonus rescaled from 4/8/12/16% to 10%
- › Frost Arrows: Now also modifies incoming healing with Aghanim's Scepter
- › Gust: Knockback duration now scales inversely with distance from the target, similar to knockback distance. Minimum knockback duration is 0.4 seconds
- › Multishot: Now allows Drow Ranger to move with a 35% penalty and use items while casting Multishot
- › Glacier: No longer increases the number of Multishot arrows
- › Glacier: No longer grants True Strike on the hill
- › Glacier: Now Drow Ranger deals 25% more damage when attacking from high ground while on the Glacier
Invoker▲ 0▼ 1— 89 lines in 7.41: Quas, Wex, Exort, Tornado …- › Quas: Max Level increased from 7 to 8
- › Wex: Max Level increased from 7 to 8
- › Exort: Max Level increased from 7 to 8
- › Tornado: Aghanim's Scepter twister damage decreased from 40 + 10 * Wex Level to 30 + 10 * Wex Level
- › Invoke: Now whenever Invoker gets Aghanim's Scepter or Aghanim's Shard, these items are inert in the inventory until Invoker activates them manually. Upon activation, he will be presented with three upgrades to choose from. Upgrades themselves for both Aghanim's Scepter and Aghanim's Shard are unchanged
- › Invoke: You can't change selected upgrades. Selling Aghanim's Scepter and buying it again will provide the same upgrade you chose the first time
- › Invoke: Aghanim's Scepter no longer provides +1 level to all three orbs. Now it provides +1 level only to a single orb you choose
- › Talents: Level 15 Talent +1 Facet Orb Level replaced with +25 Alacrity Speed/Damage
- › Talents: Level 20 Talent +50 Alacrity Speed/Damage replaced with +1 Orb Levels
Lines and values: Valve’s patch notes, word for word · Win rates, positions and items: premium and professional league games on 7.40 and 7.41, read 2026-09-27 — observational, not causal
Official images
Sources
- Patch 7.41, per heroread 27 Sept 2026
Valve’s notes for 7.41 and every lettered patch after it, word for word, beside each hero’s games in premium and professional league matches: 2,588 on 7.40, 2,837 on 7.41, read through OpenDota’s SQL explorer. Lettered patches are split by Valve’s release days. ⚠️ Observational: a move between patches is what happened, not what a line caused.
- Patch 7.41f · structured notesread 16 Sept 2026
Valve's own feed, the one dota2.com reads: 35 heroes, 16 items and 2 neutral sections, line by line. Every row on this page is one of them.
- Which patch is liveread 16 Sept 2026
Read from Valve’s patch list rather than typed. The page was a patch behind for a day because this was once a hand-written string.
- Win rate, pick rate and sampleread 15 Sept 2026
Counted over 4,610,063 public matches, per hero, with the same figures again above Ancient. The tier letter is derived from the win rate and labelled so wherever it appears.
- Complexity 1–3read 16 Sept 2026
Valve’s own difficulty rating for each hero, which is what the “learnable” half of every recommendation stands on. We do not score difficulty ourselves.
- What players buildread 15 Sept 2026
The five most common items on each hero in each of Valve’s four game stages, counted over public matches. Each icon carries its own pick count.
- Portraits, icons and ability artread 16 Sept 2026
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