How Invoker and Storm Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Invoker and Storm Spirit win 42.88% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 765 matches.
Picking these two together often comes from the idea that a global Sun Strike can easily set up a kill for a zipping Storm Spirit. The problem is that both Invoker and Storm Spirit are incredibly greedy heroes who function best with solo experience and farm priority from the mid lane. When you put one of them in a side lane, you severely delay their power spikes. A sidelane Storm won't have the levels or mana to be a threat, while an Invoker offlane takes too long to get his core spells and items. They end up competing for the same resources across the map, leaving your team with two weak cores instead of one strong one.
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 | 38.49% | 278 |
| Crusader & Archon | 42.23% | 772 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.21% | 673 |
| Divine & Immortal | 44.27% | 262 |
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 | 42.88% | ▼ -2.9pp | 765 |
| 7.41d | 45.81% | ▼ -1.4pp | 73,427 |
| 7.41c | 47.18% | ▲ +0.0pp | 46,094 |
| 7.41b | 47.16% | — | 38,181 |
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Data updated Aug 12, 2026.