How Spectre and Spirit Breaker perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Spectre and Spirit Breaker win 55.59% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,837 matches.
Picking these two heroes together forces the enemy team into an extremely defensive posture. Spirit Breaker provides the perfect initiation with Charge of Darkness, revealing and stunning an isolated target from anywhere on the map. This gives Spectre an ideal window to use Haunt and instantly appear on top of that same hero. The long-duration lockdown from Spirit Breaker guarantees that Spectre's initial burst of damage lands, and his ability to keep chasing with Greater Bash ensures the target has almost no chance to escape before the Haunt illusion and Spectre herself finish the job.
The result is a map that feels impossibly small for the other team once Spectre gets her ultimate. Any hero farming a lane alone becomes a potential kill. The enemy is forced to choose between grouping up much earlier than they want to—sacrificing farm and map control—or continuing to farm separately and feeding kills to the Spectre. This pressure cooker allows Spectre to find the pickoffs she needs to accelerate her farm, or if the enemy groups up, she gets the space to out-carry them anyway.
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 | 53.50% | 1,129 |
| Crusader & Archon | 54.41% | 2,994 |
| Legend & Ancient | 55.32% | 2,408 |
| Divine & Immortal | 52.89% | 779 |
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 | 55.59% | ▼ -0.6pp | 2,837 |
| 7.41d | 56.18% | ▼ -0.6pp | 232,381 |
| 7.41c | 56.76% | ▲ +1.0pp | 108,456 |
| 7.41b | 55.77% | — | 114,987 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.