How Night Stalker and Templar Assassin perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Night Stalker and Templar Assassin win 49.69% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 481 matches.
Hitting the first night cycle often puts these two heroes on different pages. Night Stalker wants to force the issue, running across the map to gank and create chaos. At that same moment, Templar Assassin is usually focused on a different objective: hitting an item timing like a Blink Dagger or Desolator. She needs to secure her own farm and maybe clear some ancient stacks, not necessarily rotate for early fights. While Night Stalker can create space, Templar Assassin isn't the type of core who naturally follows that aggression. This can lead to the team feeling split, with one hero trying to fight and the other trying to farm.
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 | 43.24% | 148 |
| Crusader & Archon | 48.36% | 397 |
| Legend & Ancient | 52.37% | 443 |
| Divine & Immortal | 48.77% | 203 |
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 | 49.69% | ▲ +1.6pp | 481 |
| 7.41d | 48.05% | ▼ -0.2pp | 37,816 |
| 7.41c | 48.20% | ▲ +1.0pp | 17,458 |
| 7.41b | 47.25% | — | 21,268 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.