How Slardar and Spectre perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41f, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Slardar and Spectre win 50.68% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 32,636 matches.
Hunting a lone hero with Haunt seems like Spectre's job alone, but tougher targets can often survive and get help. Adding Slardar to the equation changes that completely. Once Spectre initiates on a target, Slardar can easily Sprint in and apply Corrosive Haze. The armor reduction makes the damage from every one of Spectre's illusions hit significantly harder, turning a potential escape into a certain death. His stun locks the enemy down, giving the real Spectre all the time she needs to arrive and clean up.
This combination puts immense pressure on the map the moment Spectre gets her ultimate. The enemy team is forced to move as a group, because anyone caught alone is a free kill. Slardar can be farming his own area and still join a fight from a screen away, making ganks incredibly reliable. This constant threat starves the other team of safe farm and cedes map control, letting Spectre hit her timings much faster while the enemy is too afraid to split push or farm aggressively.
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 | 54.40% | 386 |
| Crusader & Archon | 51.53% | 1,310 |
| Legend & Ancient | 48.75% | 1,198 |
| Divine & Immortal | 48.53% | 307 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41f | 50.68% | ▼ -2.9pp | 32,636 |
| 7.41e | 53.57% | ▲ +0.5pp | 137,691 |
| 7.41d | 53.08% | ▼ -2.1pp | 134,474 |
| 7.41c | 55.14% | — | 60,240 |
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Data updated Oct 5, 2026.