How Ember Spirit and Juggernaut perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Ember Spirit and Juggernaut win 51.58% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 13,221 matches.
Setting up a gank with this pair offers a decent mix of damage types. Ember Spirit can open with magical burst and hopefully land a Searing Chains, giving Juggernaut an opportunity to connect with Blade Fury. This forces opponents to itemize against both physical and magical damage, which can be awkward. However, the synergy is limited. Ember's root is often not long enough to guarantee a successful Omnislash on a target with an escape, meaning the setup isn't very reliable. They don't have a strong, layered lockdown combo.
As the game progresses, these two heroes tend to play on their own terms. Ember Spirit excels at creating chaos and split-pushing, forcing rotations. Juggernaut wants to farm up and then join fights where he can use his ultimate or provide sustain with Healing Ward. They function more as two separate, powerful cores rather than a cohesive unit that directly enables each other. They don't get in each other's way, but they also don't create a combined threat that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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 | 46.86% | 557 |
| Crusader & Archon | 52.56% | 1,819 |
| Legend & Ancient | 55.92% | 2,078 |
| Divine & Immortal | 54.99% | 882 |
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 | 51.58% | ▲ +0.2pp | 13,221 |
| 7.41d | 51.35% | ▲ +0.4pp | 135,492 |
| 7.41c | 50.93% | ▲ +0.1pp | 65,079 |
| 7.41b | 50.82% | — | 64,010 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.