How Spirit Breaker and Viper perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Spirit Breaker and Viper win 50.67% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 14,386 matches.
Setting up a gank with Viper’s slows makes it much easier for Spirit Breaker to connect a Charge of Darkness. Once the target is stunned, Viper can place Nethertoxin on them. This not only adds damage but, more importantly, silences and breaks passives, stripping away defensive tools and escape abilities. The combination makes it incredibly difficult for a lone hero to survive the initial lockdown, as their typical reactions are disabled. It's a straightforward but effective way to isolate and control one enemy.
The main weakness of this pairing is a shared lack of high burst damage. Both heroes wear targets down with sustained attacks and damage-over-time effects, which can give the enemy team a window to teleport in or rotate for a save. The strategy hinges on finding targets who are out of position and alone. If the opponents stick together, the single-target focus of a Viper and Spirit Breaker gank becomes much less effective, often leaving them exposed to a counter-attack from multiple heroes.
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 | 50.20% | 1,229 |
| Crusader & Archon | 51.67% | 2,154 |
| Legend & Ancient | 53.57% | 1,316 |
| Divine & Immortal | 56.87% | 415 |
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 | 50.67% | ▲ +0.7pp | 14,386 |
| 7.41d | 50.02% | ▲ +0.2pp | 176,442 |
| 7.41c | 49.87% | ▼ -0.2pp | 83,435 |
| 7.41b | 50.06% | — | 94,265 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.