How Ancient Apparition and Batrider perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Ancient Apparition and Batrider win 47.37% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 857 matches.
Combining Flaming Lasso with Ice Blast often proves awkward. Batrider wants to drag a target a long distance to isolate them, which creates a difficult moving-target problem for Ancient Apparition's global ultimate. A successful hit usually requires Batrider to stop his pull early or for the AA to have perfect prediction, making the setup less reliable than it appears. While both heroes are good at securing kills on single targets, their core abilities don't directly enable each other. Batrider is all about displacement and initiation, whereas Ice Blast is most effective on enemies that are stunned or already grouped up, leading to a slight clash in their ideal fight scenarios.
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 | 42.64% | 129 |
| Legend & Ancient | 36.36% | 110 |
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 | 47.37% | ▲ +3.7pp | 857 |
| 7.41d | 43.71% | ▼ -0.3pp | 11,854 |
| 7.41c | 44.03% | ▼ -4.8pp | 6,259 |
| 7.41b | 48.82% | — | 12,694 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.