How Monkey King and Templar Assassin perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Monkey King and Templar Assassin win 36.73% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 226 matches.
Committing both Wukong's Command and a Meld strike to the same target highlights this duo's core redundancy. Monkey King and Templar Assassin are both farm-intensive physical cores who peak at the same time with similar items, forcing them to compete for resources all game. Their teamfight plans also clash. Monkey King's ultimate creates a large, chaotic brawl where he wants enemies to be trapped. This is an awkward scenario for Templar Assassin, who prefers to use Refraction and her burst to delete a single hero on the edge of the fight and reposition, not get stuck inside an arena where her defenses are stripped away.
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 | 32.73% | 165 |
| Crusader & Archon | 34.92% | 252 |
| Legend & Ancient | 36.36% | 165 |
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 | 36.73% | ▼ -2.7pp | 226 |
| 7.41d | 39.44% | ▼ -0.5pp | 23,927 |
| 7.41c | 39.91% | ▼ -0.8pp | 14,949 |
| 7.41b | 40.75% | — | 19,789 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.