How Ancient Apparition and Treant Protector perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Ancient Apparition and Treant Protector win 50.73% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,979 matches.
Landing Treant Protector's Overgrowth across the map sets up a perfect Ice Blast, and that combination can feel very strong. The problem is that both heroes are banking on that one big moment. Outside of their ultimates, Ancient Apparition and Treant Protector don't offer each other much directly. They both provide slows and control from the backline but lack the damage to secure kills by themselves. This pairing relies heavily on other cores to follow up on the setup they provide. If the rest of the team can't convert their long-range control into kills, the duo can feel redundant, waiting for long cooldowns while contributing less to skirmishes than other support pairings might.
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 | 52.01% | 298 |
| Legend & Ancient | 48.40% | 219 |
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 | 50.73% | ▲ +0.4pp | 1,979 |
| 7.41d | 50.37% | ▲ +0.8pp | 21,746 |
| 7.41c | 49.53% | ▲ +0.7pp | 7,571 |
| 7.41b | 48.82% | — | 7,825 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.