How Huskar and Vengeful Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Huskar and Vengeful Spirit win 48.95% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 5,657 matches.
Pairing a save with an all-in hero seems like a natural fit, but the dynamic with Huskar is tricky. Huskar's entire kit, especially Berserker's Blood, encourages him to fight at low health where he gets massive attack speed and magic resistance. A Vengeful Spirit who uses Nether Swap to pull him out of a fight might be saving him from death, but she could also be removing him at his moment of peak power. This conflict makes Venge a questionable partner for him; the save can be counter-productive, and she often puts herself in extreme danger to execute it.
The laning stage can be fine, since Vengeful Spirit's stun and Wave of Terror's armor reduction help set up early kills for an aggressive Huskar. The problems emerge in mid-game teamfights. Coordinating a Life Break initiation with a potential Swap is very difficult. A premature Swap removes Huskar's damage from the fight, while a late one just gets Venge killed for no reason. It puts a lot of pressure on both players to read the situation perfectly, and a single misjudgment often feels worse than having no save ability at all.
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 | 49.06% | 479 |
| Crusader & Archon | 49.09% | 933 |
| Legend & Ancient | 51.93% | 649 |
| Divine & Immortal | 47.85% | 209 |
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 | 48.95% | ▲ +0.4pp | 5,657 |
| 7.41d | 48.54% | ▼ -1.4pp | 69,988 |
| 7.41c | 49.91% | ▼ -0.2pp | 31,246 |
| 7.41b | 50.09% | — | 30,839 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.