How Ancient Apparition and Ogre Magi perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Ancient Apparition and Ogre Magi win 54.00% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 11,685 matches.
Setting up a stun with Cold Feet is much easier when Ogre Magi is around to land a Fireblast. This simple interaction forms the core of the partnership, creating a reliable lockdown chain that can be deadly in the early game. Ogre can layer Ignite on top for a persistent slow, making it even harder for a target to escape the combined damage. While Ancient Apparition's kit doesn't directly benefit from Bloodlust, the buff allows a friendly core to more effectively follow up on the disables you create, helping to secure the kill.
The game plan for this duo is to find pickoffs and create pressure around the map. An early lead built on successful ganks can snowball into a win. However, the combo is mostly single-target and relies on having a core who can capitalize on the setup. In larger teamfights, the enemy can often overwhelm this strategy by focusing the fragile Ancient Apparition or simply having too many bodies for the single-target lockdown to matter. The pairing provides a strong ganking tool, but it isn't a complete strategy on its own.
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 | 55.57% | 709 |
| Crusader & Archon | 52.20% | 1,910 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.41% | 1,206 |
| Divine & Immortal | 52.16% | 232 |
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 | 54.00% | ▲ +1.3pp | 11,685 |
| 7.41d | 52.71% | ▲ +1.0pp | 122,193 |
| 7.41c | 51.72% | ▲ +0.3pp | 49,376 |
| 7.41b | 51.46% | — | 52,159 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.