How Storm Spirit and Techies perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Storm Spirit and Techies win 43.40% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 758 matches.
Pairing these two heroes often forces your team to play two different games at once. Storm Spirit wants to be a mobile hunter, zipping across the map with Ball Lightning to find solo kills and apply pressure. Techies, on the other hand, excels at defensive area control, meticulously setting up Proximity Mines to punish enemy pushes. Their plans rarely intersect. Storm is too fast for Techies to effectively follow up on his initiations, and a single-target Electric Vortex isn't enough to force multiple heroes into a minefield. The result is two powerful heroes playing on their own, leaving the team feeling disconnected and without a cohesive strategy.
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 | 48.57% | 350 |
| Crusader & Archon | 44.11% | 841 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.65% | 641 |
| Divine & Immortal | 45.91% | 220 |
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 | 43.40% | ▼ -5.2pp | 758 |
| 7.41d | 48.57% | ▼ -1.6pp | 91,278 |
| 7.41c | 50.20% | ▲ +0.0pp | 56,889 |
| 7.41b | 50.16% | — | 47,858 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.