How Lion and Templar Assassin perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lion and Templar Assassin win 43.77% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,590 matches.
Drafting both Lion and Templar Assassin together can create a dilemma around the mid-game. Both heroes excel at the same job: finding a lone target and bursting them down. Lion uses Hex and Finger of Death to delete a single enemy, while Templar Assassin relies on her Blink Dagger and Meld to do the same. This redundancy means they often compete for the same ganking role on the map instead of complementing each other. Against coordinated opponents that group up, this duo can struggle to find the isolated pickoffs they both need to snowball, while offering very little to defend against a sustained team push.
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 | 44.81% | 694 |
| Crusader & Archon | 43.51% | 1,740 |
| Legend & Ancient | 44.83% | 1,345 |
| Divine & Immortal | 44.51% | 519 |
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 | 43.77% | ▼ -1.6pp | 1,590 |
| 7.41d | 45.40% | ▼ -0.9pp | 142,116 |
| 7.41c | 46.28% | ▲ +1.2pp | 70,686 |
| 7.41b | 45.09% | — | 85,295 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.