How Chaos Knight and Templar Assassin perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Chaos Knight and Templar Assassin win 47.33% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 300 matches.
Picking two heroes to burst down a single target seems like a strong plan, but it often leaves your team with major holes. Both Chaos Knight and Templar Assassin excel at deleting one enemy, but this focus becomes redundant. Once their target is dead, they lack the tools to handle the rest of the enemy team. Their damage is almost entirely physical, making it simple for opponents to counter-build with armor. Chaos Knight doesn't really need Templar Assassin's Psionic Trap slows to find a kill, since Reality Rift and Chaos Bolt already do that job. They end up competing for a role instead of covering each other's weaknesses.
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 | 48.31% | 207 |
| Crusader & Archon | 46.39% | 332 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.69% | 163 |
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 | 47.33% | ▲ +1.1pp | 300 |
| 7.41d | 46.27% | ▼ -1.1pp | 23,766 |
| 7.41c | 47.32% | ▲ +1.8pp | 9,639 |
| 7.41b | 45.51% | — | 12,666 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.