How Clinkz and Monkey King perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Clinkz and Monkey King win 41.92% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 260 matches.
Picking both Clinkz and Monkey King often puts your team in a tough spot from the draft. Both heroes want to fill the same niche as a snowballing physical damage core who hunts for pickoffs. They don't set each other up well; Monkey King's Wukong's Command creates a large teamfight that Clinkz, as a single-target assassin, doesn't really want to stand and fight in. Instead of complementing each other, they compete for farm and for the same role on the team, often leaving you without a proper frontline or enough crowd control.
This overlap creates problems across the map. Both heroes want to play in the enemy jungle looking for solo kills, which makes your strategy predictable and splits the available farm. An enemy team can respond by grouping up early, knowing you lack the tools to fight a coordinated push. Key defensive items like a Heaven's Halberd or Ghost Scepter are also incredibly effective against both of them, allowing one purchase to neutralize two of your main damage threats. You end up with two heroes trying to do the same job, rather than a balanced team.
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 | 39.57% | 230 |
| Crusader & Archon | 42.61% | 284 |
| Legend & Ancient | 35.67% | 171 |
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 | 41.92% | ▼ -1.5pp | 260 |
| 7.41d | 43.47% | ▲ +0.7pp | 30,642 |
| 7.41c | 42.81% | ▼ -1.8pp | 20,141 |
| 7.41b | 44.64% | — | 24,480 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.