How Dragon Knight and Vengeful Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dragon Knight and Vengeful Spirit win 52.40% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 6,143 matches.
Seeing a Wave of Terror land while a Dragon Knight is hitting you is a bad sign. The armor reduction from Vengeful Spirit makes all of Dragon Knight's physical damage more effective, especially once he has Elder Dragon Form online. Vengeful Spirit can also add her own stun to set up Dragon Tail, creating a simple ganking combination. The Vengeance aura offers a generic damage boost that helps, but it doesn’t create a special interaction between the two heroes.
This pairing is at its best when hunting for pickoffs on single targets, but the approach is very predictable. Enemies with good vision or positioning can usually see the gank coming and play around it. In larger teamfights, their combined impact is limited because they lack wide-area lockdown or damage. If their initial stun chain doesn't secure a quick kill, they can struggle to finish the job or deal with the rest of the enemy team. The success of the lane often comes down to execution, not a built-in advantage.
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 | 52.32% | 453 |
| Crusader & Archon | 54.20% | 1,144 |
| Legend & Ancient | 54.71% | 733 |
| Divine & Immortal | 48.45% | 161 |
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 | 52.40% | ▲ +0.3pp | 6,143 |
| 7.41d | 52.15% | ▲ +2.2pp | 67,633 |
| 7.41c | 49.97% | ▲ +0.2pp | 22,327 |
| 7.41b | 49.79% | — | 23,834 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.