How Earth Spirit and Necrophos perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Earth Spirit and Necrophos win 52.41% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,120 matches.
Committing to a Necrophos pick can feel like you're signing up for a slow, defensive game, but adding an Earth Spirit changes that dynamic entirely. The long-range initiation from Rolling Boulder delivers a stunned target directly to Necrophos. Earth Spirit's follow-up silence and slows give Necrophos all the time he needs to apply damage with Death Pulse and Heartstopper Aura, safely bringing an enemy into Reaper's Scythe threshold from a single catch. Instead of waiting for fights to come to him, this pairing lets Necrophos play aggressively across the map, turning Earth Spirit's ganks into guaranteed kills and building a massive early-game 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 | 46.94% | 196 |
| Crusader & Archon | 49.87% | 786 |
| Legend & Ancient | 54.96% | 1,119 |
| Divine & Immortal | 57.19% | 647 |
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 | 52.41% | ▼ -0.9pp | 1,120 |
| 7.41d | 53.36% | ▼ -0.4pp | 72,423 |
| 7.41c | 53.78% | ▲ +1.3pp | 30,559 |
| 7.41b | 52.44% | — | 24,328 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.