How Lina and Monkey King perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lina and Monkey King win 44.38% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 969 matches.
Thinking you can layer Lina's spells over a Wukong's Command seems straightforward, but it's a trap. These heroes don't enable each other; they compete for the same role. Both want to find a single target, unload a fast burst of damage, and secure a kill. Monkey King is trying to build up his damage by hitting a hero repeatedly, while Lina needs a clean setup for her stun and Laguna Blade. They provide a lot of burst, but neither one offers the reliable lockdown or defensive support the other desperately needs to survive being focused.
This leads to awkward mid-game fights where Lina and Monkey King might both unload everything on one poor support, which is massive overkill and leaves them exposed. The alternative is they play apart, looking for solo kills, which weakens their ability to fight as a team. Enemies figure this out and can either group as five to force fights where the duo's fragility is a problem, or they can position to punish whichever hero is caught out of position first. The draft leaves no room for error.
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 | 43.13% | 517 |
| Crusader & Archon | 41.14% | 1,089 |
| Legend & Ancient | 42.00% | 969 |
| Divine & Immortal | 42.32% | 345 |
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 | 44.38% | ▲ +1.5pp | 969 |
| 7.41d | 42.83% | ▼ -0.1pp | 93,398 |
| 7.41c | 42.91% | ▼ -1.0pp | 56,329 |
| 7.41b | 43.92% | — | 68,590 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.