How Doom and Vengeful Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Doom and Vengeful Spirit win 48.78% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 8,128 matches.
Pairing a long-cooldown disable with a repositioning spell seems like a guaranteed kill, but the reality is more complicated. The ideal target for Doom's ultimate isn't always the same hero Vengeful Spirit can safely swap. This often creates a dilemma: either use two huge cooldowns for a suboptimal pickoff, or have the heroes act independently. Vengeful Spirit wants to initiate with Nether Swap, but Doom often prefers to join a fight that's already started to find the right person to disable. Their timings and priorities don't always align, making their combined impact unreliable.
In practice, successful ganks require perfect coordination and leave both heroes without their key abilities for the next fight. If the enemy team is grouped, a Swap attempt can be a death sentence for Vengeful Spirit before Doom can even react. Even if they secure a kill, they've committed so much that the enemy can often win the ensuing four-versus-three fight. For the pair to succeed, the enemy has to be out of position, and even then, the trade of two ultimates for one hero is rarely as game-winning as it first appears.
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 | 39.33% | 356 |
| Crusader & Archon | 46.47% | 1,061 |
| Legend & Ancient | 48.71% | 1,123 |
| Divine & Immortal | 50.92% | 436 |
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 | 48.78% | ▼ -0.4pp | 8,128 |
| 7.41d | 49.15% | ▲ +1.2pp | 102,357 |
| 7.41c | 47.93% | ▲ +0.3pp | 25,158 |
| 7.41b | 47.66% | — | 26,700 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.