How Keeper of the Light and Spirit Breaker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Keeper of the Light and Spirit Breaker win 58.06% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,278 matches.
Getting charged from across the map is a bad sign, but seeing a Keeper of the Light on Spirit Breaker's team makes it a death sentence. The stun from Charge of Darkness provides the perfect opening for a fully channeled Illuminate to land, delivering a massive burst of damage. Beyond the setup, Spirit Breaker's biggest limit is his mana pool. Keeper of the Light erases this weakness with Chakra Magic, enabling him to apply constant pressure with charges from the very start of the game without ever needing to go back to base.
This combination thrives on punishing isolated heroes. Early on, Spirit Breaker can gank relentlessly while Keeper of the Light keeps his resources full. As the game progresses, any hero farming a lane alone becomes a potential victim. The opposing team is forced to group up much earlier than they want, sacrificing farm and map control to avoid feeding kills. Their only real defense is to maintain deep vision to spot incoming charges and to stay together, while the duo actively works to split them up and pick them off.
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 | 53.94% | 558 |
| Crusader & Archon | 55.44% | 1,351 |
| Legend & Ancient | 56.05% | 1,058 |
| Divine & Immortal | 59.44% | 461 |
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 | 58.06% | ▲ +4.5pp | 1,278 |
| 7.41d | 53.51% | ▲ +0.2pp | 100,957 |
| 7.41c | 53.28% | ▼ -0.2pp | 44,056 |
| 7.41b | 53.51% | — | 47,854 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.