How Bloodseeker and Storm Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Bloodseeker and Storm Spirit win 45.31% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,039 matches.
Picking these two cores together is a bet on snowballing through early kills. On paper, the idea is that Storm Spirit can zip onto a target and burst them down, activating Bloodseeker's Thirst from anywhere on the map for a clean-up. Rupture can also help hold a target in place for Storm to land his full combo. The weakness is that both heroes are almost entirely single-target oriented and they don't offer a true stun between them. A Blood Rite silence after an Electric Vortex pull is decent, but many heroes have an escape that can get them out of that specific overlap.
The game plan relies entirely on getting that early momentum. When Bloodseeker and Storm Spirit are ahead, they can run around the map picking off anyone caught alone. The combined chase and burst is very effective at punishing mistakes. If the enemy team plays safe and groups up, however, this duo can hit a wall. Neither hero is great at cracking a defensive five-man lineup, and they don't offer much utility or teamfight control if they fall behind. They either dominate by controlling the tempo or they get outscaled by more well-rounded drafts.
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 | 45.39% | 304 |
| Crusader & Archon | 46.75% | 400 |
| Legend & Ancient | 45.96% | 235 |
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 | 45.31% | ▼ -2.9pp | 3,039 |
| 7.41d | 48.18% | ▲ +0.2pp | 40,192 |
| 7.41c | 48.01% | ▼ -0.2pp | 19,479 |
| 7.41b | 48.25% | — | 18,622 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.