How Nyx Assassin and Templar Assassin perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Nyx Assassin and Templar Assassin win 50.56% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 356 matches.
Hitting a target with both a Vendetta strike and a Meld strike is often overkill. The issue is that both Nyx Assassin and Templar Assassin want to find and delete the same type of isolated, squishy hero. This can leave the lineup feeling one-dimensional, with two heroes filling a similar single-target burst role. When the enemy team starts grouping up, neither hero offers the sustained damage or wide-area control needed to break a five-man push. Templar Assassin usually prefers a partner who can provide frontline presence or save her from the area-of-effect spells that burn through Refraction, and a roaming Nyx doesn't really do either.
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 | 41.72% | 151 |
| Crusader & Archon | 47.31% | 391 |
| Legend & Ancient | 52.16% | 301 |
| Divine & Immortal | 46.53% | 144 |
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 | 50.56% | ▲ +2.8pp | 356 |
| 7.41d | 47.77% | ▼ -0.1pp | 36,344 |
| 7.41c | 47.82% | ▲ +1.0pp | 15,118 |
| 7.41b | 46.83% | — | 18,692 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.