How Ember Spirit and Ursa perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Ember Spirit and Ursa win 46.26% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 4,812 matches.
Picking these two cores together feels like it should be an aggressive, fast-paced lineup, but their fight patterns clash. Ursa needs a target pinned down reliably so he can build up Fury Swipes and secure a kill. Ember Spirit provides a root with Searing Chains, but it's short and can hit random units, making it an unreliable setup. While Ursa wants to commit and stand his ground against a single target, Ember is designed to weave in and out of fights with Sleight of Fist, avoiding commitment and hitting multiple heroes. They simply don't enable each other's kill potential.
This disconnect gets worse as the game goes on. Ursa often has to buy his own initiation and hope he can burst a target before they can react, because Ember Spirit can't provide the control he needs. During teamfights, you'll see Ember zipping around the perimeter, chipping away at the enemy team, while Ursa struggles to get on top of a priority target and stay there. They end up playing separate games within the same fight, each needing different things from their team that the other can't provide.
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 | 37.10% | 221 |
| Crusader & Archon | 48.14% | 644 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.86% | 749 |
| Divine & Immortal | 48.23% | 311 |
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 | 46.26% | ▲ +0.7pp | 4,812 |
| 7.41d | 45.55% | ▲ +0.1pp | 56,979 |
| 7.41c | 45.43% | ▼ -1.3pp | 30,614 |
| 7.41b | 46.69% | — | 33,259 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.