How Phantom Assassin and Templar Assassin perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41f, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Phantom Assassin and Templar Assassin win 45.27% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 15,311 matches.
Putting two heavy physical damage cores on the same team seems like a way to overwhelm the enemy, but it usually creates more problems than it solves. Both Phantom Assassin and Templar Assassin need a lot of farm to hit their key item timings, and they want to farm the same areas of the map. This creates a direct conflict for resources that slows both of them down. Worse, stacking them makes your team's damage output predictable. The enemy team can simply buy armor, Ghost Scepters, or a Heaven's Halberd to counter both of your main threats at once. A Meld debuff isn't enough to overcome the fundamental issue that you have two heroes trying to do the same job.
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 | 46.27% | 268 |
| Crusader & Archon | 37.14% | 517 |
| Legend & Ancient | 32.75% | 287 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41f | 45.27% | ▲ +0.2pp | 15,311 |
| 7.41e | 45.03% | ▲ +1.0pp | 44,389 |
| 7.41d | 44.03% | ▼ -0.6pp | 44,147 |
| 7.41c | 44.63% | — | 20,664 |
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Data updated Oct 5, 2026.