How Drow Ranger and Spirit Breaker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Drow Ranger and Spirit Breaker win 48.56% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 29,151 matches.
Picking off an isolated enemy becomes a real threat with this duo. Spirit Breaker can initiate from anywhere on the map with Charge of Darkness, holding a target in place. This gives Drow Ranger the perfect window to chain her Frost Arrows and unload damage before the enemy can react. The combination of a long-duration stun into a powerful slow makes escaping very difficult for most heroes, turning what should be a safe rotation into a kill that opens up the map.
Throughout the game, this pressure can force the enemy team to play safer and stick together. Early on, Spirit Breaker's ganks can secure Drow's lane, and later they can hunt as a pair to control key areas. The main weakness is that Drow Ranger remains an immobile target herself. If the enemy team anticipates the gank and baits the Charge, they can easily turn and kill her. The success of this pairing often depends on Drow's positioning and whether the enemy team is coordinated enough to punish her for stepping forward.
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 | 47.65% | 1,893 |
| Crusader & Archon | 50.79% | 4,365 |
| Legend & Ancient | 51.59% | 3,456 |
| Divine & Immortal | 51.69% | 1,064 |
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 | 48.56% | ▼ -4.4pp | 29,151 |
| 7.41d | 52.92% | ▲ +0.8pp | 376,773 |
| 7.41c | 52.14% | ▲ +1.2pp | 160,289 |
| 7.41b | 50.90% | — | 145,687 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.