How Lina and Vengeful Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lina and Vengeful Spirit win 53.80% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,037 matches.
Choosing Vengeful Spirit with a Lina often feels like you're committing to a "protect the queen" strategy, and it pays off because of how perfectly their kits align. Vengeful Spirit's reliable stun from Magic Missile is exactly what's needed to guarantee Lina lands her tricky Light Strike Array, creating a long and simple lockdown chain. This alone makes their laning phase a serious threat. As Lina builds up damage, Vengeful Aura provides a consistent boost to her attacks, while Wave of Terror can shred armor to make her right-clicks hit much harder, especially against durable targets.
Throughout the game, this duo wants to find pickoffs. Lina is fragile and plays from a distance, making her a prime target for enemy initiators. This is where Nether Swap becomes critical, acting as a get-out-of-jail-free card to save Lina from a bad position or to bring a key enemy into her burst range. The enemy team's goal is to split them up or burst one down instantly. For the pair to succeed, Vengeful Spirit needs to stay close, provide vision, and be ready to trade her life to keep her core firing.
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 | 52.11% | 1,021 |
| Crusader & Archon | 53.66% | 3,075 |
| Legend & Ancient | 53.85% | 2,880 |
| Divine & Immortal | 53.22% | 977 |
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 | 53.80% | ▲ +0.3pp | 3,037 |
| 7.41d | 53.51% | ▲ +2.4pp | 205,767 |
| 7.41c | 51.07% | ▲ +0.7pp | 58,092 |
| 7.41b | 50.38% | — | 54,219 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.