How Lycan and Monkey King perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lycan and Monkey King win 45.19% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 135 matches.
Assuming these two physical cores can run at enemies together often leads to awkward fights. Lycan's entire game plan with Shapeshift is to be mobile, chasing a specific hero across the map and then pushing objectives. He wants to keep moving forward. Monkey King is the opposite; he wants to plant Wukong's Command and force the enemy team to fight inside that static area. Lycan will often end up dragging the fight away from the ring, leaving Monkey King's ultimate hitting air. They fundamentally disagree on how a teamfight should play out, making it difficult to execute a clean plan with both heroes.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 43.18% | 132 |
| Legend & Ancient | 53.00% | 100 |
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 | 45.19% | ▲ +0.2pp | 135 |
| 7.41d | 45.02% | ▲ +0.5pp | 10,966 |
| 7.41c | 44.51% | ▼ -0.3pp | 8,113 |
| 7.41b | 44.81% | — | 6,592 |
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Data updated Aug 12, 2026.