How Lycan and Templar Assassin perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lycan and Templar Assassin win 54.84% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 124 matches.
Picking both Lycan and Templar Assassin puts your team in a tough spot. Both heroes want to be the primary physical damage threat, hit a powerful mid-game timing, and use Roshan to end the game. This creates a lot of conflict over farm and objective priority. When Lycan is ready to run at towers with Shapeshift, Templar Assassin is often looking to do the exact same thing with her own item timings. Instead of having two different ways to win, you end up with two heroes competing for the same job, leaving the team's strategy predictable and highly vulnerable to physical damage counters.
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 | 52.38% | 105 |
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 | 54.84% | ▲ +10.6pp | 124 |
| 7.41d | 44.20% | ▼ -1.8pp | 8,663 |
| 7.41c | 46.03% | ▲ +0.7pp | 4,621 |
| 7.41b | 45.32% | — | 4,446 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.