How Mars and Storm Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Mars and Storm Spirit win 36.84% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 437 matches.
Trapping enemies inside Arena of Blood offers very little to a hero like Storm Spirit. His whole game is about hyper-mobility, and Ball Lightning lets him pass through the Arena walls without a second thought. This means Mars's main teamfight spell doesn't really enable Storm or lock down his targets in a way that's useful to him. Their damage types also clash. Mars brings physical damage through God's Rebuke and attacks, while Storm relies on magical burst. Without a way to amplify each other, they often feel like two solo-kill heroes who happen to be on the same team.
This dynamic creates a disjointed game plan. Mars wants to commit his team to a big, five-on-five fight inside a small circle. Storm Spirit, however, is often more effective using that same chaos to pick off a support on the opposite side of the fight. They both tend to initiate, but on different terms, which can split their team's focus. Instead of a clear one-two punch, you get one hero trying to create a static fortress while the other wants to zip around the entire battlefield. This lack of a shared goal often leaves the team feeling pulled in two directions at once.
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 | 42.76% | 145 |
| Crusader & Archon | 43.35% | 406 |
| Legend & Ancient | 39.25% | 451 |
| Divine & Immortal | 40.82% | 245 |
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 | 36.84% | ▼ -6.5pp | 437 |
| 7.41d | 43.37% | ▼ -0.0pp | 49,099 |
| 7.41c | 43.38% | ▲ +1.8pp | 33,628 |
| 7.41b | 41.57% | — | 31,104 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.