How Dark Willow and Monkey King perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dark Willow and Monkey King win 45.77% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 378 matches.
Pairing up for a gank looks straightforward on paper, but the timing rarely works out. A delayed stun from Dark Willow's Cursed Crown is hard to land after Monkey King has already used Boundless Strike for his own stun. They both have tools for control, but they tend to overlap in ways that waste their impact. Their preferred positioning in a fight is also completely different. Monkey King wants to be in the middle of a contained brawl, while Dark Willow needs to stay on the edges, using Shadow Realm to stay safe and choose her moment.
This conflict gets worse as the game goes on. In larger teamfights, Monkey King will drop Wukong's Command, creating a huge zone that Dark Willow cannot safely play inside. She is forced to contribute from a distance, unable to get close for a good Bedlam. Her Bramble Maze can even mess up Monkey King's chase by rooting a target out of his reach or creating awkward pathing inside his ultimate. They end up playing two separate skirmishes within the same fight, making it easy for opponents to isolate and deal with them one by one.
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 | 41.63% | 209 |
| Crusader & Archon | 47.37% | 399 |
| Legend & Ancient | 45.22% | 314 |
| Divine & Immortal | 38.93% | 149 |
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 | 45.77% | ▲ +2.6pp | 378 |
| 7.41d | 43.16% | ▼ -0.7pp | 38,891 |
| 7.41c | 43.84% | ▼ -1.1pp | 23,002 |
| 7.41b | 44.89% | — | 29,402 |
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Data updated Aug 12, 2026.