Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41f win rate from ranked matches.
Favored
Phoenix 51.57%
Ancient Apparition48.43%
Phoenix51.57%
Over 15,525 ranked matches (7.41f).
In Dota 2 7.41f, Phoenix wins the Ancient Apparition vs Phoenix matchup: Phoenix beats Ancient Apparition in 51.57% of 15,525 ranked matches.
How this matchup plays
You might think Ice Blast is the perfect answer to Phoenix, but it's often not that simple. Phoenix can use Icarus Dive to dodge the initial projectile or simply cast Supernova to immune the impact and then wait out most of the debuff. Meanwhile, Phoenix has all the tools needed to dive and kill a slow, fragile hero like Ancient Apparition. If he gets on top of you, you're in trouble, and AA has almost no way to help kill the Supernova egg alone.
Ancient Apparition vs Phoenix by rank
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Ancient Apparition's win rate against Phoenix 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
Ancient Apparition win rate
Matches
Crusader & Archon
50.91%
438
Legend & Ancient
46.80%
562
Divine & Immortal
38.73%
142
Ancient Apparition vs Phoenix across patches
Ancient Apparition's win rate against Phoenix in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
Patch
Ancient Apparition win rate
Change
Matches
7.41f
48.43%
▼ -1.4pp
15,525
7.41e
49.81%
▼ -0.1pp
51,080
7.41d
49.86%
▲ +1.0pp
56,694
7.41c
48.84%
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29,839
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Put Ancient Apparition against Phoenix
Ancient Apparition starts on Radiant and Phoenix on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.