Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Spectre wins the Spectre vs Tusk matchup: Spectre beats Tusk in 55.00% of 1,020 ranked matches.
Unloading the full Tusk combo with Snowball and Walrus PUNCH often hurts him as much as it hurts Spectre. Her Dispersion reflects a portion of all incoming damage, turning Tusk's entire burst-heavy kit back on himself and any allies nearby. He's designed to isolate and delete a single hero to start a fight, but Spectre is naturally durable enough to survive his initiation. This makes trying to kill her a losing proposition, as she just gets tankier while his combo damage stays relatively flat. He can't perform his core function against her.
This forces Tusk to avoid ganking Spectre after the early levels, but her Haunt means she can join any fight and force the engagement anyway. Tusk is then relegated to a more defensive role, trying to save teammates with Snowball rather than making aggressive plays. His only real hope is a Silver Edge to disable her passives, but that's a big investment for a hero who relies on early momentum. Spectre, on the other hand, can comfortably farm and scale, knowing one of the enemy's primary initiators can't touch her.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Spectre's win rate against Tusk 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 | Spectre win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 58.61% | 273 |
| Crusader & Archon | 57.22% | 949 |
| Legend & Ancient | 54.61% | 1,009 |
| Divine & Immortal | 53.10% | 565 |
Spectre's win rate against Tusk in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Spectre win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 55.00% | ▼ -1.8pp | 1,020 |
| 7.41d | 56.82% | ▼ -0.4pp | 77,934 |
| 7.41c | 57.25% | ▲ +1.1pp | 34,634 |
| 7.41b | 56.18% | — | 34,740 |
Move this data into a draft
Spectre starts on Radiant and Tusk on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 11, 2026.