How Slardar and Vengeful Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Slardar and Vengeful Spirit win 49.34% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,599 matches.
Setting up kills with this pair is incredibly straightforward. Vengeful Spirit and Slardar both bring reliable stuns and ways to massively reduce a target’s armor. A successful Magic Missile or Slithereen Crush is usually a death sentence, because the follow-up from Corrosive Haze and Wave of Terror makes even durable heroes melt under physical attacks. They can lock down and eliminate a key enemy before a fight even properly begins, creating an instant numbers advantage for their team.
This pickoff threat translates directly into map control. From the laning stage onwards, no enemy is safe farming alone. The duo can force objectives with this pressure, especially Roshan, who falls extremely fast to the stacked armor reduction. The other team is forced to play defensively and grouped up, which slows down their farm and makes it hard for them to contest key areas. If they get split up or caught out of position, Slardar and Vengeful Spirit can easily turn that mistake into a won teamfight or a free objective.
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 | 52.67% | 581 |
| Crusader & Archon | 51.80% | 1,693 |
| Legend & Ancient | 51.20% | 1,422 |
| Divine & Immortal | 45.43% | 416 |
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 | 49.34% | ▼ -4.1pp | 1,599 |
| 7.41d | 53.46% | ▲ +0.2pp | 130,652 |
| 7.41c | 53.29% | ▲ +0.1pp | 49,380 |
| 7.41b | 53.21% | — | 45,387 |
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Data updated Aug 12, 2026.