Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lich wins the Lich vs Monkey King matchup: Lich beats Monkey King in 60.90% of 757 ranked matches.
Seeing Lich on the other team makes picking Monkey King a serious gamble. The main problem is how easily Lich dismantles Wukong's Command. A single cast of Sinister Gaze can force Monkey King to walk out of his own ultimate, completely wasting his biggest teamfight spell. If Gaze isn't available, Lich can instead toss Chain Frost into the circle of soldiers, which guarantees a huge number of bounces that will almost certainly hit the real Monkey King repeatedly. Even outside of that ultimate interaction, Frost Shield makes it much harder to burst a target down, and the constant slow from Frost Blast keeps Monkey King from sticking to enemies long enough to build his Jingu Mastery stacks.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Lich's win rate against Monkey King 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 | Lich win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 60.42% | 331 |
| Crusader & Archon | 61.53% | 785 |
| Legend & Ancient | 59.10% | 797 |
| Divine & Immortal | 58.97% | 290 |
Lich's win rate against Monkey King in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Lich win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 60.90% | ▲ +2.8pp | 757 |
| 7.41d | 58.07% | ▲ +0.8pp | 83,225 |
| 7.41c | 57.27% | ▲ +1.6pp | 60,453 |
| 7.41b | 55.65% | — | 74,326 |
Move this data into a draft
Lich starts on Radiant and Monkey King on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 11, 2026.