How Spirit Breaker and Vengeful Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Spirit Breaker and Vengeful Spirit win 54.33% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 20,104 matches.
Charging a hero as Spirit Breaker often means diving deep and risking your own life. With a Vengeful Spirit on your team, that risk is almost gone. She can follow up your arrival with a Magic Missile for more lockdown and a Wave of Terror to shred armor. More importantly, if the enemy team turns on you, a quick Nether Swap pulls you right back to safety. This combination lets you play far more aggressively, turning risky initiations into clean, guaranteed kills.
This duo turns the entire map into a hunting ground. From the laning stage onward, Spirit Breaker can initiate from anywhere, confident that Vengeful Spirit can either secure the kill or bail him out. Enemies are forced to play defensively and stick together, because getting caught alone is almost always fatal. Their main recourse is to have excellent map vision and multiple ways to disable Spirit Breaker instantly, otherwise he gets his pickoff and Vengeful Spirit resets the fight by saving him.
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 | 55.31% | 1,074 |
| Crusader & Archon | 55.45% | 2,981 |
| Legend & Ancient | 55.19% | 2,794 |
| Divine & Immortal | 53.87% | 917 |
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 | 54.33% | ▼ -0.4pp | 20,104 |
| 7.41d | 54.71% | ▲ +1.6pp | 215,594 |
| 7.41c | 53.10% | 0.0pp | 60,734 |
| 7.41b | 53.10% | — | 63,632 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.