How Anti-Mage and Vengeful Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Anti-Mage and Vengeful Spirit win 53.46% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 15,624 matches.
Trying to lock down a split-pushing Anti-Mage becomes twice as hard when Vengeful Spirit is on the map. Even if you land a perfect initiation, a well-timed Nether Swap can pull him to safety and completely reset the gank. For Anti-Mage, this provides a powerful safety net that lets him farm more aggressively than he otherwise could. Vengeful Spirit also offers reliable lockdown with Magic Missile, giving him the setup needed to get on a target. Her damage aura and armor reduction also mean his right-clicks hit harder once he does commit to a fight.
The main issue is that these two heroes operate on different clocks. Vengeful Spirit is strongest in the early and mid-game, wanting to group up and force fights. Anti-Mage wants to do the exact opposite, avoiding contact to farm his core items. This can lead to games where Vengeful Spirit's team is constantly playing four-versus-five, unable to convert her strong timings into objectives. If the game goes long enough for Anti-Mage to come online, the combination feels good, but surviving until that point is often the entire challenge.
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 | 55.41% | 1,119 |
| Crusader & Archon | 53.35% | 2,656 |
| Legend & Ancient | 51.00% | 1,794 |
| Divine & Immortal | 51.25% | 400 |
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 | 53.46% | ▲ +1.0pp | 15,624 |
| 7.41d | 52.42% | ▲ +1.8pp | 175,226 |
| 7.41c | 50.60% | ▲ +0.2pp | 56,533 |
| 7.41b | 50.44% | — | 52,500 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.