How Ember Spirit and Sven perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Ember Spirit and Sven win 51.30% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 6,146 matches.
Playing around two cores with such different timings can stretch a team's resources thin. Ember Spirit wants to be active across the map as soon as he has a few levels, looking for kills with Searing Chains. Sven, on the other hand, needs a lot of safe space to farm up the items for God's Strength to mean anything. While Ember is good at creating chaos that can distract from Sven, he often needs immediate follow-up to secure his kills. A farming Sven is usually on the other side of the map and can't provide that backup stun or damage, leaving Ember's aggression to fizzle out.
The result is a draft that often feels pulled in two different directions. Either your team plays a slower game to protect Sven, which wastes Ember Spirit's powerful mid-game window, or you try to force fights with Ember, pulling Sven into action before he's hit his key item timings. This pairing relies heavily on the other three heroes to bridge the gap between Ember's constant skirmishing and Sven's need to prepare for one big teamfight. If the enemy team identifies this split-focus, they can often punish one hero while the other is unable to respond effectively.
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 | 44.64% | 289 |
| Crusader & Archon | 49.88% | 828 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.78% | 898 |
| Divine & Immortal | 57.77% | 431 |
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 | 51.30% | ▲ +2.1pp | 6,146 |
| 7.41d | 49.17% | ▲ +0.9pp | 50,989 |
| 7.41c | 48.27% | ▲ +0.1pp | 16,763 |
| 7.41b | 48.17% | — | 18,875 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.