How Ember Spirit and Kez perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Ember Spirit and Kez win 42.52% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 301 matches.
Pairing two mobile, high-damage cores feels like a way to overwhelm opponents, but the reality is that Ember Spirit and Kez have conflicting needs. Both heroes require a significant amount of the map's farm to be effective, which can starve the rest of their team. The more critical issue is their lack of complementary lockdown. Ember Spirit’s Searing Chains is his primary tool for holding someone down, but it's conditional and often not enough setup for a duelist like Kez to fully commit to a target. Without a reliable stunner or a durable frontline to create space, both heroes are forced to play reactively, unable to properly enable each other's aggression.
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 | 44.29% | 219 |
| Legend & Ancient | 40.82% | 294 |
| Divine & Immortal | 46.99% | 183 |
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 | 42.52% | ▲ +0.1pp | 301 |
| 7.41d | 42.40% | ▼ -1.2pp | 27,102 |
| 7.41c | 43.60% | ▼ -2.4pp | 21,389 |
| 7.41b | 45.97% | — | 14,993 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.