How Ember Spirit and Phantom Lancer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41f, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Ember Spirit and Phantom Lancer win 51.67% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 40,159 matches.
Facing this pair feels like death by a thousand cuts. Phantom Lancer creates a massive army of illusions that clogs up teamfights and pressures objectives. The natural response from the enemy is to use area-of-effect spells to clear them out, but this plays directly into Ember Spirit's hands. His Sleight of Fist gets to hit a huge number of targets, letting Ember apply huge damage across the entire enemy team while they're distracted. Both heroes are also incredibly mobile, allowing them to split the map to farm safely and then join a fight from unexpected angles. This creates two elusive, high-damage threats that are very difficult to lock down and burst simultaneously.
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 | 46.26% | 281 |
| Crusader & Archon | 48.55% | 1,137 |
| Legend & Ancient | 52.04% | 1,614 |
| Divine & Immortal | 49.25% | 729 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41f | 51.67% | ▲ +0.0pp | 40,159 |
| 7.41e | 51.63% | ▲ +1.2pp | 136,486 |
| 7.41d | 50.38% | ▼ -0.2pp | 85,134 |
| 7.41c | 50.58% | — | 40,973 |
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Data updated Oct 5, 2026.