How Slardar and Templar Assassin perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Slardar and Templar Assassin win 49.11% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 507 matches.
Pairing Corrosive Haze with Templar Assassin's burst seems like an obvious way to melt heroes, but in practice, these two cores often step on each other's toes. Both heroes want to do the same thing: get a Blink Dagger and initiate on a single target with physical damage. Slardar offers a stun, but he provides very little of the defensive support or sustained control that a fragile hero like Templar Assassin actually needs to survive teamfights. Once her Refraction charges are broken, he can't do much to save her.
This dynamic creates an awkward mid-game where both heroes are hunting for the same kinds of pickoffs, leading to redundant ganks and an over-reliance on bursting one hero down. The draft becomes very one-dimensional and predictable. Opponents can easily counter by grouping up and building armor or Ghost Scepters. If the initial blink-and-burst fails, your team is left with few tools to win a prolonged fight, as neither Slardar nor TA offers much utility beyond their initial engage.
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 | 49.14% | 232 |
| Crusader & Archon | 45.45% | 539 |
| Legend & Ancient | 44.49% | 445 |
| Divine & Immortal | 38.92% | 185 |
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 | 49.11% | ▲ +3.2pp | 507 |
| 7.41d | 45.88% | ▼ -1.9pp | 48,009 |
| 7.41c | 47.73% | ▲ +1.2pp | 25,372 |
| 7.41b | 46.55% | — | 30,759 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.