How Dawnbreaker and Monkey King perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dawnbreaker and Monkey King win 44.31% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 641 matches.
Combining Wukong's Command with a Solar Guardian landing sounds like a guaranteed fight, but the reality is much less clean. Both ultimates are telegraphed, delayed area-of-effect spells that are easy to walk away from. Trying to stack them on the same spot is often redundant; if an enemy is disabled long enough for one to hit, they probably would have died anyway. The combined setup time gives the enemy team more than enough warning to disengage or interrupt one of the channels, making the whole plan fall apart before it even gets going.
Throughout a match, this forces Monkey King and Dawnbreaker into conflicting playstyles. Monkey King wants to play from the trees, looking for an isolated hero to trap. Dawnbreaker, however, needs allies on the ground to make her Solar Guardian effective, so she's looking to join fights that are already happening. This means they are often pulling in opposite directions. The dream combo requires a perfect setup, but more often one hero commits their ultimate and the other isn't in the right place to follow up, leading to an even trade instead of a decisive victory.
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 | 43.56% | 202 |
| Crusader & Archon | 47.91% | 549 |
| Legend & Ancient | 45.48% | 642 |
| Divine & Immortal | 44.17% | 283 |
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 | 44.31% | ▼ -2.3pp | 641 |
| 7.41d | 46.57% | ▼ -1.1pp | 61,615 |
| 7.41c | 47.67% | ▼ -1.9pp | 51,213 |
| 7.41b | 49.57% | — | 55,711 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.