How Earth Spirit and Sand King perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Earth Spirit and Sand King win 47.17% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,190 matches.
Getting caught by a long-range stun from Earth Spirit often feels like a death sentence, as Sand King is usually right there to follow up with Burrowstrike. The problem is what happens next. Both heroes offer a big dose of magic damage but lack sustained output once their spells are on cooldown. More importantly, their abilities can actively work against each other. Earth Spirit's whole kit is about moving enemies with Boulder Smash and Geomagnetic Grip. This repositioning can easily push targets out of Sand King's Epicenter or ruin the perfect setup. While they can chain stuns for a single pickoff, their overlapping roles and disruptive movements often make larger teamfights less clean than they should be.
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 | 43.48% | 299 |
| Legend & Ancient | 45.86% | 338 |
| Divine & Immortal | 49.17% | 120 |
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 | 47.17% | ▼ -1.1pp | 2,190 |
| 7.41d | 48.26% | ▲ +1.1pp | 19,447 |
| 7.41c | 47.17% | ▼ -0.4pp | 8,140 |
| 7.41b | 47.55% | — | 10,741 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.