How Riki and Spirit Breaker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Riki and Spirit Breaker win 53.86% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 10,189 matches.
Getting charged by Spirit Breaker is bad enough, but with Riki on his team, you're not getting stunned—you're getting ambushed. Spirit Breaker provides the long-range initiation and lockdown, giving Riki a perfect window to drop Smoke Screen directly on the target. The silence and miss chance prevent any retaliation or escape, leaving the victim helpless as Riki stacks up damage from behind. It’s a simple, brutal ganking combo that's effective from the earliest levels and requires little coordination to execute.
This pickoff threat forces enemies to play defensively from the very start, often needing to group up much earlier than they’d like. If they don't, they risk giving up kills all over the map. Even when they do five-man, Spirit Breaker can still crash into their backline, creating chaos that Riki can exploit with Tricks of the Trade. The constant pressure forces opponents into buying early detection and defensive items, slowing their own item timings while your team gets to dictate the pace of the game.
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 | 52.26% | 819 |
| Crusader & Archon | 53.99% | 1,504 |
| Legend & Ancient | 56.17% | 1,086 |
| Divine & Immortal | 52.19% | 297 |
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 | 53.86% | ▲ +0.7pp | 10,189 |
| 7.41d | 53.12% | ▼ -0.4pp | 122,150 |
| 7.41c | 53.53% | ▲ +0.4pp | 61,510 |
| 7.41b | 53.16% | — | 64,010 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.