How Lion and Monkey King perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lion and Monkey King win 41.62% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,112 matches.
Picking up a kill on a lone hero feels easy with this pair, but their kits have a fundamental conflict in larger fights. Lion's strength lies in his single-target lockdown with Hex and Earth Spike, which seems like it should set up Monkey King perfectly. The issue arises with Monkey King's ultimate, Wukong's Command. The spell is a massive teamfight tool that requires enemies to be held in place inside its radius to be effective. Lion, however, can only disable one enemy at a time, offering no area-of-effect control to help Monkey King land a multi-hero ultimate.
This dynamic forces them into a specific, limited playstyle. They can excel at ganking and deleting a single, isolated hero before a fight begins. But when a full five-on-five engagement breaks out, the weakness is exposed. Monkey King will cast his ultimate, and the enemy team can often simply walk out of the circle while Lion is busy disabling a single person. They lack the tools to control a whole team, forcing the Monkey King to either fight alone inside his ultimate or cancel it early, wasting a major cooldown.
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 | 42.69% | 869 |
| Crusader & Archon | 40.61% | 2,189 |
| Legend & Ancient | 41.47% | 1,900 |
| Divine & Immortal | 41.31% | 673 |
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 | 41.62% | ▼ -2.5pp | 2,112 |
| 7.41d | 44.14% | ▼ -1.4pp | 200,040 |
| 7.41c | 45.54% | ▼ -1.3pp | 141,131 |
| 7.41b | 46.80% | — | 170,522 |
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Data updated Aug 12, 2026.