How Dragon Knight and Ember Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41f, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Dragon Knight and Ember Spirit win 51.21% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 23,223 matches.
Setting up Ember Spirit's Searing Chains with Dragon Tail is a decent combo, but it's often not enough lockdown to secure a kill alone. The bigger issue is that these two heroes want to play Dota in different ways. Dragon Knight provides a steady frontline, wanting to group with his team to push down towers once he has his ultimate. Ember Spirit is better at creating pressure across the map, split-pushing lanes and looking for solo pick-offs with his remnants. While they both have strong mid-game timings, they don't amplify each other's plans. Their damage profiles also overlap, making it easier for enemies to itemize defensively and blunt the impact of both cores at the same time.
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 | 47.54% | 122 |
| Crusader & Archon | 49.71% | 509 |
| Legend & Ancient | 55.18% | 801 |
| Divine & Immortal | 54.96% | 353 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41f | 51.21% | ▲ +1.3pp | 23,223 |
| 7.41e | 49.89% | ▲ +2.5pp | 41,766 |
| 7.41d | 47.41% | ▲ +0.5pp | 26,392 |
| 7.41c | 46.92% | — | 13,449 |
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Data updated Oct 5, 2026.