How Anti-Mage and Earthshaker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Anti-Mage and Earthshaker win 50.45% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 22,342 matches.
Playing for the late game with this duo can feel awkward because their timings rarely line up. Anti-Mage wants to avoid fighting for as long as possible, focusing entirely on his own farm to get core items. Earthshaker, on the other hand, comes online much earlier and wants to start forcing teamfights the moment he gets his Blink Dagger. While a long-range Fissure stun can certainly hold someone down for Anti-Mage to Blink onto, he is often on the opposite side of the map when those opportunities arise. The core game plans of the two heroes are fundamentally at odds.
This conflict defines the mid-game. The team with Earthshaker feels pressure to fight and use his initiation, but they are effectively playing a hero down while Anti-Mage farms. If the other three heroes can successfully stall and make space, the combination works fine later on; a farmed Anti-Mage loves having Earthshaker's teamfight control to clean up fights. More frequently, though, the enemy exploits this window, takes map control, and builds a lead that even a farmed Anti-Mage can't overcome.
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 | 51.28% | 1,490 |
| Crusader & Archon | 49.91% | 3,466 |
| Legend & Ancient | 51.68% | 2,533 |
| Divine & Immortal | 51.25% | 679 |
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 | 50.45% | ▲ +0.2pp | 22,342 |
| 7.41d | 50.22% | ▲ +1.0pp | 241,529 |
| 7.41c | 49.23% | ▼ -0.1pp | 98,375 |
| 7.41b | 49.37% | — | 100,219 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.