How Death Prophet and Templar Assassin perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Death Prophet and Templar Assassin win 43.68% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 190 matches.
Setting up kills for Templar Assassin requires isolating a target she can burst down quickly. Death Prophet, on the other hand, wants to activate Exorcism and run at the whole enemy team, creating a chaotic, long-lasting brawl. Their tempos clash completely. Templar Assassin wants to play around her short Refraction cooldowns, while Death Prophet commits to a long fight with her ultimate. Because both heroes are often played as greedy cores from the same lane, they end up competing for farm and space on the map. Instead of enabling each other, they pull the game in two different directions, making it difficult to execute a coherent 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 | 41.41% | 128 |
| Crusader & Archon | 43.00% | 200 |
| Legend & Ancient | 44.90% | 147 |
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 | 43.68% | ▼ -0.2pp | 190 |
| 7.41d | 43.83% | ▲ +0.2pp | 21,033 |
| 7.41c | 43.66% | ▼ -0.2pp | 10,996 |
| 7.41b | 43.90% | — | 14,033 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.