How Vengeful Spirit and Venomancer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Vengeful Spirit and Venomancer win 50.41% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,109 matches.
Trying to win the lane with these two offers a mixed bag. Vengeful Spirit’s Magic Missile provides the perfect setup for Venomancer to land a full-duration Venomous Gale and stack his passive slow. This creates a lot of early pressure. Wave of Terror also helps chip away at targets, but the armor reduction doesn't align perfectly with Venomancer's magic-heavy damage output. The combination works, but it's not a clean damage spike; it’s more of a persistent, annoying grind that wears opponents down.
Later in the game, this pairing is great at controlling space and chasing down separated enemies. A Nether Swap can pull an enemy right into a nest of Plague Wards, and the combined slows make escape nearly impossible. The main issue is their lack of finishing power. Poison Nova gets everyone low but can’t kill them, and Vengeful Spirit’s kit doesn't provide the burst needed to clean up. The enemy team has a window to turn with saves or spells before the damage-over-time effects finish their work, which keeps this duo from feeling truly dominant.
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 | 53.38% | 414 |
| Crusader & Archon | 54.00% | 1,213 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.61% | 1,014 |
| Divine & Immortal | 43.97% | 257 |
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 | 50.41% | ▼ -0.4pp | 1,109 |
| 7.41d | 50.78% | ▲ +1.5pp | 105,627 |
| 7.41c | 49.32% | ▼ -1.7pp | 35,656 |
| 7.41b | 51.03% | — | 43,926 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.