How Ancient Apparition and Broodmother perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Ancient Apparition and Broodmother win 53.16% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,678 matches.
Picking these two heroes together often means you're playing two separate games. Broodmother wants to dominate a lane, spin her webs, and force constant reactions to her solo pressure and spiderlings. She thrives by pulling the enemy team apart and creating chaos on one side of the map. Ancient Apparition, meanwhile, excels when the enemy team groups up, allowing him to land a multi-hero Ice Blast that completely shuts down their sustain in a fight. While a global ultimate can help Broodmother finish a target, their primary strategies conflict. One hero wants to fracture the map, the other wants to condense it, leading to a pairing that rarely amplifies either's strengths.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 48.67% | 150 |
| Crusader & Archon | 56.64% | 286 |
| Legend & Ancient | 54.09% | 159 |
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 | 53.16% | ▲ +3.4pp | 1,678 |
| 7.41d | 49.72% | ▼ -0.4pp | 20,398 |
| 7.41c | 50.10% | ▲ +0.3pp | 9,726 |
| 7.41b | 49.81% | — | 13,087 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.