How Spirit Breaker and Templar Assassin perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Spirit Breaker and Templar Assassin win 50.84% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 956 matches.
Getting charged by a Spirit Breaker gives the target's whole team a warning. That heads-up is a problem for Templar Assassin, who lives and dies by the element of surprise for her Meld strikes. By the time the stun lands, the victim's allies are often already collapsing to help or have placed detection, making it risky for TA to commit. While a stun is always welcome, the global notification from Charge of Darkness works against the quiet, instant burst she wants to deliver, giving the enemy time to prepare a response.
This leads to a game plan that feels a bit redundant. Both heroes excel at picking off lone targets, but they don't enable each other in ways that scale well into the mid or late game. If opponents adapt by grouping up, both heroes can struggle to find impact. Templar Assassin can't safely commit into a full team fight, and Spirit Breaker's single-target lockdown offers little protection for her or control over the rest of the enemy team. They're trying to do the same job without covering each other's weaknesses.
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 | 45.41% | 447 |
| Crusader & Archon | 48.86% | 1,007 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.45% | 779 |
| Divine & Immortal | 47.59% | 290 |
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 | 50.84% | ▲ +2.9pp | 956 |
| 7.41d | 47.98% | ▲ +0.3pp | 84,111 |
| 7.41c | 47.68% | ▲ +0.5pp | 40,902 |
| 7.41b | 47.17% | — | 55,244 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.