How Ember Spirit and Magnus perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Ember Spirit and Magnus win 48.74% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 8,074 matches.
Setting up for a big teamfight with this pair can feel a little awkward. On paper, Empower on Ember Spirit sounds great for boosting his Sleight of Fist damage. The problem is that Ember often builds his own cleave with a Battle Fury, making Magnus’s buff partially redundant. More importantly, their kits pull in different directions. Reverse Polarity is designed to hold enemies in place for a core to unload on them, but Ember is an evasive hero who prefers to strike from the edges of a fight and escape with Fire Remnant, not stand his ground.
As the game progresses, this disconnect becomes more obvious. Magnus wants to group up and force a decisive fight around his ultimate, while Ember Spirit is one of the best split-pushers in the game and prefers to apply pressure across the map. Even when they do combine for a fight, Ember isn’t the durable, stand-and-fight carry that gets the most out of being Skewered onto a target or sitting in the middle of a Reverse Polarity. He provides follow-up from a distance, which means the full potential of Magnus’s setup often goes untapped.
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 | 46.48% | 256 |
| Crusader & Archon | 45.78% | 983 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.53% | 1,500 |
| Divine & Immortal | 50.29% | 678 |
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 | 48.74% | ▲ +0.3pp | 8,074 |
| 7.41d | 48.43% | ▲ +0.3pp | 79,865 |
| 7.41c | 48.16% | ▼ -0.1pp | 40,606 |
| 7.41b | 48.26% | — | 41,851 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.