How Ancient Apparition and Batrider perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41f, from ranked matches.
As teammates
Together 46.03%
Win rate when Ancient Apparition and Batrider are on the same team, over 2,887 ranked matches (7.41f).
In Dota 2 7.41f, Ancient Apparition and Batrider win 46.03% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,887 matches.
Why this works
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.
Ancient Apparition + Batrider across patches
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
7.41f
46.03%
▲ +1.3pp
2,887
7.41e
44.70%
▲ +1.0pp
8,597
7.41d
43.71%
▼ -0.3pp
11,854
7.41c
44.03%
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6,259
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