How Grimstroke and Templar Assassin perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Grimstroke and Templar Assassin win 48.31% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 443 matches.
Facing this pair often feels less threatening than it should. The core issue lies with Grimstroke’s ultimate, Soulbind. Templar Assassin wants to blink onto a target and burst them with a Meld strike, but she has no single-target spell to double up on the second bound hero. Her damage can spill with Psi Blades, yet this requires specific alignment and rarely delivers the impact you’d expect from a Soulbind combo. Their timings and positioning also conflict. Ink Swell requires Grimstroke to be in the middle of the fight, while a good Templar Assassin plays on the edge, looking for an opening to jump a key target and retreat. They end up playing separate games.
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 | 43.04% | 158 |
| Crusader & Archon | 48.27% | 404 |
| Legend & Ancient | 44.81% | 366 |
| Divine & Immortal | 44.52% | 146 |
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 | 48.31% | ▲ +1.9pp | 443 |
| 7.41d | 46.39% | ▼ -0.4pp | 34,743 |
| 7.41c | 46.82% | ▲ +1.6pp | 14,854 |
| 7.41b | 45.27% | — | 17,471 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.