How Clockwerk and Storm Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Clockwerk and Storm Spirit win 43.64% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 346 matches.
Pairing these two heroes forces a gank-heavy strategy that their kits struggle to execute together. The main problem is Clockwerk's Power Cogs. After a successful Hookshot, Clockwerk wants to trap a target and isolate them. However, Storm Spirit needs to get close to deal damage and use Electric Vortex, and Cogs form a physical barrier he can't pass. A well-placed set of Cogs to trap an enemy will often trap Storm out of the fight, or knock him away if he's already close. This fundamental conflict makes their primary abilities work against each other.
Throughout the mid-game, this friction makes securing kills much harder than it should be. Clockwerk will initiate, but Storm Spirit is forced to find an awkward path with Ball Lightning to contribute, wasting precious mana and time while the trapped target is either saved or fights back. An enemy team can exploit this by staying relatively close together, knowing that the duo has a hard time focusing fire on a single hero. Instead of a clean pickoff, fights become messy and inefficient, preventing Storm Spirit from getting the early snowball he desperately needs to take over the map.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 46.25% | 320 |
| Legend & Ancient | 42.18% | 339 |
| Divine & Immortal | 43.84% | 219 |
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 | 43.64% | ▼ -3.0pp | 346 |
| 7.41d | 46.64% | ▼ -1.1pp | 41,492 |
| 7.41c | 47.70% | ▲ +2.0pp | 25,369 |
| 7.41b | 45.69% | — | 12,899 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.