How Ancient Apparition and Queen of Pain perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Ancient Apparition and Queen of Pain win 49.64% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 8,996 matches.
Combining their damage is the main idea here. A target hit by Ice Blast is a perfect setup for Queen of Pain, whose spells can quickly bring an enemy below the shatter threshold for a guaranteed kill. Ancient Apparition can also use Ice Vortex to amplify her magic damage right before she blinks in. On paper, this gives the team huge global kill pressure, letting them finish off anyone who gets caught out, no matter how far they run. The combo turns any small mistake by an enemy into a fatal one.
In practice, the plan often falls apart because neither hero provides the lockdown the other needs. Queen of Pain is all about mobility and damage, but she lacks a reliable stun to hold a target for Ancient Apparition's Cold Feet. Both heroes are also fairly squishy and prefer to stay on the edges of a fight. Without a durable initiator to start things off, the two can feel disconnected. Queen of Pain will be hunting for her own pickoffs, while Ancient Apparition waits for a big teamfight that struggles to get going.
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 | 50.40% | 371 |
| Crusader & Archon | 46.60% | 1,206 |
| Legend & Ancient | 47.36% | 946 |
| Divine & Immortal | 41.27% | 252 |
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 | 49.64% | ▲ +1.7pp | 8,996 |
| 7.41d | 47.95% | ▲ +0.8pp | 96,118 |
| 7.41c | 47.20% | ▼ -2.2pp | 49,456 |
| 7.41b | 49.38% | — | 58,250 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.