How Lina and Nyx Assassin perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lina and Nyx Assassin win 51.60% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 12,400 matches.
Lining up a kill with these two heroes seems straightforward, but it often leads to overkill. Nyx Assassin can easily initiate from Vendetta, using Impale to set up a guaranteed Light Strike Array from Lina. The combined magic burst can delete a single target before they can react. The main problem is that both heroes are bringing the same kind of damage to the fight. This makes the enemy's itemization simple; a single Pipe of Insight or early Black King Bars can blunt the effectiveness of the entire strategy, leaving you with two heroes who used all their spells on one target.
Early on, this duo can create pressure by roaming for pickoffs, with Nyx Assassin scouting and Lina delivering the final blow. If they get a few successful ganks, they can build a lead. However, this game plan is predictable. Wary opponents will start moving as a team and building magic resistance sooner than usual. This forces the Lina and Nyx to find isolated targets or risk being ineffective in larger teamfights. Their success hinges entirely on snowballing from those early kills, and if that doesn't happen, their impact drops off considerably.
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 | 50.84% | 596 |
| Crusader & Archon | 52.47% | 1,744 |
| Legend & Ancient | 52.54% | 1,692 |
| Divine & Immortal | 50.40% | 754 |
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 | 51.60% | ▲ +0.0pp | 12,400 |
| 7.41d | 51.56% | ▲ +0.7pp | 125,366 |
| 7.41c | 50.83% | ▲ +1.0pp | 44,958 |
| 7.41b | 49.80% | — | 44,131 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.