How Necrophos and Vengeful Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Necrophos and Vengeful Spirit win 55.72% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,128 matches.
Swapping a key target into the middle of the fight is the perfect setup for Necrophos. It lets him land a guaranteed Reaper's Scythe, and Vengeful Spirit follows up with Magic Missile to make sure they can't escape. Necrophos always wants to be in close to apply Heartstopper Aura, but he has no good way to force an engagement himself. Venge solves this by literally delivering the target to him, allowing him to cycle Death Pulse and stay in the action without having to overextend.
The game plan becomes about finding these pickoffs across the map. With both ultimates available, they can walk into enemy territory and delete almost any hero caught out of position. This forces opponents to play much more cautiously and spend gold on defensive items. In larger teamfights, catching a primary core with a Nether Swap into Scythe often decides the entire engagement before it really begins. The threat is constant and dictates how the enemy team has to position from the mid-game onward.
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 | 56.80% | 1,125 |
| Crusader & Archon | 57.62% | 3,315 |
| Legend & Ancient | 55.61% | 2,908 |
| Divine & Immortal | 53.58% | 881 |
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 | 55.72% | ▲ +0.1pp | 3,128 |
| 7.41d | 55.62% | ▲ +1.1pp | 259,002 |
| 7.41c | 54.53% | ▲ +0.6pp | 79,732 |
| 7.41b | 53.95% | — | 66,571 |
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Data updated Aug 12, 2026.