How Ancient Apparition and Wraith King perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Ancient Apparition and Wraith King win 61.38% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,318 matches.
Fighting into a Wraith King is already about chewing through his two lives. Ancient Apparition makes that task feel impossible. Wraith King provides a reliable front-liner and a long, single-target stun that perfectly sets up Cold Feet. While enemies are occupied trying to bring him down the first time, it creates an easy opening for a multi-hero Ice Blast. The inability to heal means any focus fire on a target is likely fatal, and Wraith King is great at sticking to one person and making sure they get low enough to shatter.
This starts in the lane, where Chilling Touch adds serious damage to Wraith King's harass. Later on, the game plan is straightforward. Wraith King walks at the enemy team, forces them to use their spells on him, and buys all the time needed for Ancient Apparition to find the perfect angle for his ultimate. Once the Ice Blast lands, the fight is usually decided. The enemy is now stuck in Reincarnation's slow, unable to heal, and facing a refreshed carry. The only real counterplay is to find and kill Ancient Apparition before he can act, but that often means ignoring a farmed Wraith King.
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 | 60.10% | 574 |
| Crusader & Archon | 61.54% | 1,568 |
| Legend & Ancient | 56.20% | 1,089 |
| Divine & Immortal | 52.23% | 224 |
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 | 61.38% | ▲ +3.1pp | 1,318 |
| 7.41d | 58.29% | ▲ +1.9pp | 115,184 |
| 7.41c | 56.42% | ▲ +1.4pp | 50,617 |
| 7.41b | 55.03% | — | 55,483 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.