How Spirit Breaker and Venomancer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Spirit Breaker and Venomancer win 52.79% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,148 matches.
Struggling to control the game's pace is common with this pairing, which often leads to stalled momentum and less map control. Spirit Breaker's game plan revolves around turning a successful Charge of Darkness into a quick kill and moving on to the next objective. However, Venomancer provides damage over time and slows, not the instant burst or hard disable needed to secure those kills. A target hit by Charge will often survive the initial impact and have a chance to escape or get help while Venomancer's poisons tick away. This lack of synergy for rapid ganks means Spirit Breaker can't snowball as effectively, and the team misses out on converting picks into towers.
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 | 50.58% | 603 |
| Crusader & Archon | 53.18% | 1,303 |
| Legend & Ancient | 48.57% | 910 |
| Divine & Immortal | 53.10% | 258 |
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 | 52.79% | ▲ +4.9pp | 1,148 |
| 7.41d | 47.88% | ▲ +0.6pp | 117,221 |
| 7.41c | 47.32% | ▼ -0.7pp | 67,825 |
| 7.41b | 48.05% | — | 108,495 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.