How Ancient Apparition and Templar Assassin perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Ancient Apparition and Templar Assassin win 49.61% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 385 matches.
A difficult game plan comes from trying to pair these two heroes. Templar Assassin relies on bursting down single targets with physical damage from Meld and Psi Blades. She needs teammates who can provide reliable stuns to hold enemies in place for her combo. Ancient Apparition's kit is a poor match for this, as his only stun, Cold Feet, is easily dodged, and his Ice Vortex provides magic resistance reduction, which does almost nothing to amplify TA's damage.
This lack of synergy directly slows down Templar Assassin's tempo. Without easy setups for kills, she struggles to get the early gold and experience needed to snowball into a map-controlling threat. While Ancient Apparition’s Ice Blast is a powerful teamfight tool for long, drawn-out engagements, it doesn't help TA execute her preferred strategy of jumping on a key target and eliminating them before a fight begins. The two heroes want to play the game at different paces and in different ways, making it hard to find 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 | 36.54% | 156 |
| Crusader & Archon | 47.34% | 414 |
| Legend & Ancient | 53.00% | 300 |
| Divine & Immortal | 42.34% | 111 |
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 | 49.61% | ▲ +2.9pp | 385 |
| 7.41d | 46.71% | ▼ -0.6pp | 35,160 |
| 7.41c | 47.31% | ▲ +3.1pp | 15,164 |
| 7.41b | 44.17% | — | 19,860 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.