How Earth Spirit and Rubick perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Earth Spirit and Rubick win 49.89% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 11,149 matches.
Setting up a gank with this pair relies on a simple disable chain. Earth Spirit can initiate with Rolling Boulder, and Rubick can immediately follow up with Telekinesis on the stunned target. This gives plenty of time for a core to arrive and secure the kill. The main interaction is this sequential lockdown; neither hero's kit directly amplifies the other's spells. Earth Spirit’s silence can also be useful to stop an enemy from escaping, but the synergy depends more on good coordination than a powerful built-in combination. It’s effective, but not a free win.
Their game plan revolves around creating early pressure. Both Earth Spirit and Rubick are excellent roamers, and they can move around the map together to find pickoffs and control the tempo. In larger teamfights, Earth Spirit acts as a disruptive frontliner, kicking and silencing key targets. This chaos gives Rubick space to find a good position and steal a critical spell. The success of this duo often depends on how well their cores can convert these early advantages into objectives, as the pairing itself doesn't provide much tower damage or late-game scaling.
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 | 45.99% | 237 |
| Crusader & Archon | 46.56% | 1,263 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.24% | 2,122 |
| Divine & Immortal | 50.17% | 1,200 |
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 | 49.89% | ▼ -0.5pp | 11,149 |
| 7.41d | 50.38% | ▼ -1.2pp | 92,192 |
| 7.41c | 51.54% | ▲ +0.7pp | 37,419 |
| 7.41b | 50.87% | — | 34,858 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.