How Ember Spirit and Monkey King perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Ember Spirit and Monkey King win 43.37% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,433 matches.
Thinking these two can run over a game together is a common mistake, as their fight plans are fundamentally opposed. Monkey King excels when enemies are pinned down, letting him build Jingu Mastery on a single hero or trapping them in Wukong's Command. Ember Spirit does the opposite; he wants to dance around a fight, hitting everyone with Sleight of Fist and forcing them to split up or chase him. Ember's ideal fight is one where he kites and pokes, which directly ruins the static brawl Monkey King needs to thrive.
In practice, this means their damage is rarely focused. Ember Spirit will burn his spells to soften up the enemy team, but this pressure often causes them to scatter right before Monkey King is ready to commit his ultimate. Both heroes end up looking for their own separate openings instead of creating a single powerful one together. They can also step on each other's toes for farm priority across the map, leaving the draft feeling greedy and uncoordinated against a team that knows how to split them up.
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 | 38.98% | 177 |
| Crusader & Archon | 39.43% | 454 |
| Legend & Ancient | 41.56% | 474 |
| Divine & Immortal | 45.49% | 233 |
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 | 43.37% | ▲ +0.3pp | 3,433 |
| 7.41d | 43.09% | ▼ -0.1pp | 42,610 |
| 7.41c | 43.18% | ▼ -2.5pp | 29,123 |
| 7.41b | 45.73% | — | 39,924 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.