How Keeper of the Light and Monkey King perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Keeper of the Light and Monkey King win 39.06% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 425 matches.
Giving Monkey King extra mana for Boundless Strike sounds good, but in teamfights these heroes pull in opposite directions. Monkey King wants to be in the enemy's face, trapping them inside Wukong's Command. Keeper of the Light wants to play from the back and control enemy positions. The most direct conflict is Blinding Light, which is a great defensive tool but actively knocks enemies out of Monkey King's ultimate, completely wasting the setup. They simply want the fight to happen in two different places at once.
This means Monkey King often ends up isolated. He’ll find a good jump, pop his ultimate, and Keeper of the Light will try to help from far away. A long-channel Illuminate might be too slow for a quick assassination, and a misplaced Blinding Light can ruin the whole engagement. The enemy team can focus the Monkey King down, knowing his partner can’t really save him without making things worse. It forces the duo to be extremely careful with spell timing, which is a big ask in a chaotic teamfight.
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 | 36.43% | 280 |
| Crusader & Archon | 42.20% | 455 |
| Legend & Ancient | 40.23% | 353 |
| Divine & Immortal | 47.77% | 157 |
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 | 39.06% | ▼ -4.0pp | 425 |
| 7.41d | 43.03% | ▼ -1.4pp | 42,955 |
| 7.41c | 44.44% | ▼ -2.1pp | 23,303 |
| 7.41b | 46.58% | — | 28,142 |
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Data updated Aug 12, 2026.