How Arc Warden and Spirit Breaker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Arc Warden and Spirit Breaker win 56.62% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 869 matches.
Getting charged by Spirit Breaker becomes a death sentence with an Arc Warden nearby. The charge naturally isolates a hero from their team, guaranteeing Arc Warden's Flux deals its full damage and slow. Spirit Breaker's follow-up stuns then provide all the time needed for the Tempest Double to arrive and start unloading physical damage. This combination creates a long-duration, single-target lockdown that can be initiated from anywhere on the map, leaving the victim with very few options to escape.
This global ganking threat forces opponents to stay grouped for safety, which in turn gives Arc Warden free rein to farm and split-push across the map. Spirit Breaker effectively creates the space that his carry needs to accelerate. Later on, his role can shift to protecting the real Arc Warden from jumpers or initiating on a key backline hero for the Tempest Double to burst down. To counter this, enemies must sacrifice their own map control and farm by sticking together, which is often a losing trade.
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 | 48.84% | 432 |
| Crusader & Archon | 58.34% | 893 |
| Legend & Ancient | 55.97% | 620 |
| Divine & Immortal | 49.46% | 184 |
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 | 56.62% | ▲ +3.6pp | 869 |
| 7.41d | 53.06% | ▲ +0.4pp | 66,992 |
| 7.41c | 52.68% | ▲ +1.3pp | 30,891 |
| 7.41b | 51.40% | — | 34,338 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.