How Ancient Apparition and Luna perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Ancient Apparition and Luna win 51.53% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 9,634 matches.
Boosting Luna's early kill threat is the main idea here. Ancient Apparition’s Ice Vortex makes Luna’s Lucent Beam and especially her Eclipse hit much harder. This can turn a standard gank into a secured kill, helping Luna accelerate her farm and start controlling the map. Chilling Touch also adds a bit of extra magic damage to her attacks in lane, helping wear down opponents. The whole point is to give Luna an early lead so she can begin pushing towers with her team.
The partnership can feel underwhelming because it offers Luna almost no protection. Ancient Apparition lacks a reliable stun or a way to save her if she gets initiated on. As the game progresses, Luna also transitions to dealing mostly physical damage with her Moon Glaives, which makes the magic resistance reduction from Ice Vortex less relevant. The success of this duo depends heavily on the enemy draft. If they can't punish a fragile carry, Luna gets a helpful damage boost. If they can, she's often left to fend for herself.
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 | 53.07% | 473 |
| Crusader & Archon | 53.97% | 1,336 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.87% | 1,181 |
| Divine & Immortal | 47.65% | 405 |
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 | 51.53% | ▲ +1.0pp | 9,634 |
| 7.41d | 50.55% | ▲ +0.4pp | 83,972 |
| 7.41c | 50.11% | ▼ -0.3pp | 29,805 |
| 7.41b | 50.37% | — | 31,150 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.