How Earth Spirit and Kez perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Earth Spirit and Kez win 45.85% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 386 matches.
Setting up a kill with Boulder Smash can often backfire for this pair. Kez relies on his dueling tools, like his parry, which require the enemy to actually be fighting back to get value. When Earth Spirit lands a perfect stun or silence, he’s taking away the very thing Kez needs to outplay an opponent. This leaves the carry feeling like a simple right-clicker without access to his full kit's potential. Both heroes want to play aggressively around the map, but their core approaches to a fight are at odds. Earth Spirit wants to control the enemy completely, while Kez wants to be in a reactive, back-and-forth duel he's built to win.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 44.44% | 261 |
| Legend & Ancient | 45.93% | 344 |
| Divine & Immortal | 43.66% | 213 |
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 | 45.85% | ▲ +1.0pp | 386 |
| 7.41d | 44.89% | ▼ -3.1pp | 23,705 |
| 7.41c | 47.96% | ▲ +0.2pp | 14,371 |
| 7.41b | 47.79% | — | 9,276 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.