How Templar Assassin and Warlock perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Templar Assassin and Warlock win 49.57% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 349 matches.
Pairing these two heroes often creates a draft that's fighting itself over what it wants to do. Templar Assassin is built to find a target, break stealth, and delete them in seconds with a Meld strike. She needs instant setup—a quick stun or a root—to guarantee that burst. Warlock offers the complete opposite. His damage over time from Fatal Bonds doesn't help TA's single-target focus, and his main lockdown from Chaotic Offering has a cast time and a long cooldown, making it poor for the rapid pickoffs Templar Assassin hunts for. He simply operates on a different clock.
This timing mismatch defines their games together. Templar Assassin will blink in for a kill, but Warlock is too far back, waiting for a bigger teamfight to use his spells effectively. By the time his Golems land, the initial engagement is often over; TA has either already killed her target and moved on, or she was focused and killed for lack of immediate support. Warlock wants to control a big, slow teamfight from the backline, while TA wants to be an explosive initiator on the frontline. They rarely get to execute their plans together in the same fight.
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 | 43.89% | 221 |
| Crusader & Archon | 49.67% | 459 |
| Legend & Ancient | 43.67% | 316 |
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 | 49.57% | ▲ +4.9pp | 349 |
| 7.41d | 44.66% | ▼ -0.4pp | 37,557 |
| 7.41c | 45.02% | ▲ +1.0pp | 18,464 |
| 7.41b | 44.05% | — | 25,654 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.