How Clinkz and Spectre perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Clinkz and Spectre win 53.40% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 515 matches.
Splitting the map and creating chaos gives Spectre a much safer game to farm. Clinkz is a natural predator, able to find and eliminate a lone hero anywhere with his high burst damage. This constant threat of a pickoff forces enemies to play defensively and stay close together. When Clinkz does commit on a target, a well-timed Haunt from Spectre can turn a solo gank into a team-wide disaster for the enemy, as Desolate tears through anyone caught alone by an illusion.
The strategy is straightforward: Clinkz applies pressure across the map as soon as he can, hunting supports and forcing rotations. This active aggression buys Spectre the time and space she needs to accumulate her core items without interruption. Opponents are stuck with a bad choice: either they group up to survive, conceding map control and farm, or they spread out and risk getting picked off. A single successful gank allows Spectre to join with her ultimate, securing kills that accelerate her into the late game much faster.
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 | 55.07% | 414 |
| Crusader & Archon | 53.01% | 581 |
| Legend & Ancient | 54.84% | 310 |
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 | 53.40% | ▼ -1.3pp | 515 |
| 7.41d | 54.69% | ▼ -0.9pp | 48,111 |
| 7.41c | 55.56% | ▲ +0.1pp | 22,848 |
| 7.41b | 55.42% | — | 23,154 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.