How Medusa and Phantom Assassin perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Medusa and Phantom Assassin win 40.00% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 245 matches.
Trying to fit both Medusa and Phantom Assassin into one draft creates a serious resource problem. Both heroes are greedy carries at heart, meaning they need a ton of safe farm to come online and buy their core items. When they're on the same team, they're forced to split the map, which slows them both down significantly. Your team will have a huge power trough in the mid-game because neither hero has the items they need to fight effectively. Even in the late game, their kits don't really help each other; Phantom Assassin wants to jump and burst a single target, while Medusa wants to stand her ground. They don't provide the control the other needs.
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 | 45.02% | 271 |
| Crusader & Archon | 38.96% | 308 |
| Legend & Ancient | 32.35% | 102 |
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 | 40.00% | ▼ -6.6pp | 245 |
| 7.41d | 46.59% | ▼ -0.6pp | 25,126 |
| 7.41c | 47.21% | ▲ +0.6pp | 15,635 |
| 7.41b | 46.66% | — | 14,946 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.