How Spectre and Troll Warlord perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Spectre and Troll Warlord win 52.38% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 147 matches.
Putting two hard carries on one team seems like a recipe for a loss, but the pairing works because their timings are staggered. Troll Warlord comes online earlier and wants to force fights and take objectives. When he uses Battle Trance on a target, the enemy team has to respond to him immediately. This is the perfect setup for Spectre to use Haunt. She adds damage from across the map, isolates supports with Desolate, and turns a one-man gank into a team-wide disaster. This constant pressure allows Spectre to secure the farm she needs to become a problem later, turning their supposedly greedy draft into a powerful two-pronged attack.
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 | 52.47% | 162 |
| Crusader & Archon | 49.04% | 157 |
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 | 52.38% | ▼ -1.3pp | 147 |
| 7.41d | 53.64% | ▼ -1.9pp | 14,257 |
| 7.41c | 55.55% | ▲ +1.2pp | 7,086 |
| 7.41b | 54.34% | — | 6,945 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.