How Ancient Apparition and Clockwerk perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Ancient Apparition and Clockwerk win 49.71% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,446 matches.
Picking off a key enemy can really open up the map. Clockwerk is great at finding and isolating a single target with Hookshot and Power Cogs, creating the perfect setup for Ancient Apparition to land Cold Feet and Ice Blast. A successful long-range gank like this can secure an objective or give your cores safe farm. The issue is that this combination is very high-commitment. Both heroes use their ultimates, and if the target gets saved or Clockwerk is the one who gets collapsed on, the entire play falls apart. Beyond that specific interaction, the heroes don't offer much else for each other, making their partnership fairly situational and dependent on good communication.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 49.71% | 340 |
| Legend & Ancient | 44.13% | 315 |
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 | 49.71% | ▼ -0.2pp | 2,446 |
| 7.41d | 49.86% | ▼ -0.9pp | 29,822 |
| 7.41c | 50.77% | ▲ +0.4pp | 14,207 |
| 7.41b | 50.38% | — | 10,943 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.