How Storm Spirit and Winter Wyvern perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Storm Spirit and Winter Wyvern win 44.79% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,653 matches.
Trying to burst down a target with Storm Spirit can be difficult when your main ally is Winter Wyvern. Storm wants to jump on a single hero, lock them down with Electric Vortex, and have his team unload damage. However, Wyvern's key spells directly interfere with this plan. Cold Embrace can save the exact target Storm is trying to kill by making them immune to his physical attacks and healing them. Winter's Curse also makes the primary victim immune to damage from Storm's team, turning a potential pickoff into a wasted dive.
This spell conflict often slows down Storm Spirit's ability to snowball. The duo requires a high level of coordination to avoid these negative interactions. Instead of cleanly securing kills, fights can become messy, with Storm committing his mana only for his target to be saved by a well-intentioned but misplaced spell from Wyvern. For the pairing to succeed, Winter Wyvern must be extremely careful, using her ultimate on secondary targets to create chaos or holding Cold Embrace exclusively to save Storm himself after he's gone in.
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 | 39.67% | 184 |
| Crusader & Archon | 42.42% | 455 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.10% | 410 |
| Divine & Immortal | 50.57% | 265 |
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 | 44.79% | ▼ -0.9pp | 3,653 |
| 7.41d | 45.65% | ▼ -2.2pp | 43,825 |
| 7.41c | 47.90% | ▲ +0.5pp | 23,189 |
| 7.41b | 47.37% | — | 17,705 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.