Templar Assassin — win rate, matchups and best allies

Popular builds

A build is the first three key items a player bought, in any order, shown in the most common buying order. Win rate and how often it is played are shown under each, from matches with item timings.

Selected build

Key items, in buying order

Desolator~17:19
Blink Dagger~19:25
Dragon Lance~18:37

Skill order, levels 1–25

51.5% · 66 games with this order

Ability	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
Refraction										10		12		14	15
Meld	1		3		5		7
Psi Blades		2		4				8	9
Psionic Trap						6							13					18
Talent											T					T				T					T
Attributes																	17		19		21	22	23	24

The most common order. Games count if they followed it for as long as they lasted, from 10 points on. Gold numbers: the levels where an ultimate point or a talent usually comes. T: a talent is taken here; the tree shows which.

Talents

+4 Refraction Instances

15% · 53.0% · 66

0.8s Meld Hit Bash

85% · 57.9% · 368

+4 Meld Armor Reduction

75% · 51.4% · 510

Refraction Dispels

25% · 51.7% · 174

+3 Psionic Traps

1% · 35.7% · 14

+225 Meld Attack Range

99% · 47.8% · 1,009

+15% Psionic Trap Slow

47% · 50.8% · 368

+1.5s Meld Debuff Duration

53% · 45.2% · 423

+2 to All Attributes · levels 17, 19, 21–24

Talents at 10, 20, 25: the games of this build. Talents at 15: all the hero's games at this rank and position, because this build has under 30 games on a side. Under each talent: how often it is picked, win rate, games. ★ the higher win rate we are 95% sure of, with at least 30 games on each side. Bar: how often each side is picked.

Starting items

41.4% · 140

55.0% · 109

45.7% · 70

Neutral items

45.4% · 218

53.2% · 203

44.3% · 149

35.9% · 78

41.3% · 75

46.9% · 49

When to buy

Win rate depending on when the item was bought (first purchase, 5-minute windows). Earlier is usually better — this shows by how much.

Desolator~17:19

5–10 min	▲ 100.0%	4
10–15 min	▲ 55.2%	277
15–20 min	▼ 46.2%	552
20–25 min	▼ 37.4%	155
25–30 min	▼ 21.2%	33
30–35 min	▼ 25.0%	4
35–40 min	▲ 50.0%	2

Bought before 15:00: 55.9% wins; later: 43.2%.

Blink Dagger~19:25

5–10 min	▲ 66.7%	6
10–15 min	▲ 59.2%	103
15–20 min	▲ 52.6%	494
20–25 min	▼ 40.9%	335
25–30 min	▼ 27.3%	66
30–35 min	▲ 55.6%	9
35–40 min	▼ 20.0%	5
55–60 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 15:00: 59.6% wins; later: 46.3%.

Dragon Lance~18:37

5–10 min	▲ 55.6%	27
10–15 min	▼ 47.2%	286
15–20 min	▲ 55.8%	226
20–25 min	▼ 45.9%	294
25–30 min	▼ 32.6%	86
30–35 min	▼ 23.8%	21
35–40 min	▲ 57.1%	7
40–45 min	▼ 0.0%	1
55–60 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 15:00: 47.9% wins; later: 46.9%.

Crystalys~26:44

10–15 min	▲ 50.0%	2
15–20 min	▲ 80.0%	50
20–25 min	▲ 64.4%	306
25–30 min	▼ 42.3%	213
30–35 min	▼ 44.0%	116
35–40 min	▼ 43.5%	46
40–45 min	▼ 47.6%	21
45–50 min	▼ 16.7%	6

Bought before 25:00: 66.5% wins; later: 42.8%.

Daedalus~31:57

15–20 min	▲ 100.0%	3
20–25 min	▲ 79.6%	54
25–30 min	▲ 69.6%	191
30–35 min	▲ 54.1%	196
35–40 min	▲ 55.3%	94
40–45 min	▼ 46.8%	47
45–50 min	▼ 40.0%	15
50–55 min	▲ 66.7%	3

Bought before 30:00: 72.2% wins; later: 53.0%.

Force Staff~29:45

15–20 min	▲ 75.0%	16
20–25 min	▲ 63.5%	137
25–30 min	▲ 54.6%	194
30–35 min	▲ 54.1%	133
35–40 min	▲ 54.7%	64
40–45 min	▼ 44.8%	29
45–50 min	▼ 33.3%	12
50–55 min	▼ 33.3%	3
55–60 min	▼ 25.0%	4

Bought before 25:00: 64.7% wins; later: 52.8%.

Hurricane Pike~30:16

15–20 min	▲ 71.4%	7
20–25 min	▲ 66.9%	124
25–30 min	▲ 54.6%	194
30–35 min	▲ 51.8%	137
35–40 min	▲ 57.7%	71
40–45 min	▼ 45.2%	31
45–50 min	▼ 30.8%	13
50–55 min	▼ 33.3%	3
55–60 min	▼ 0.0%	3

Bought before 30:00: 59.7% wins; later: 50.8%.

Black King Bar~32:42

15–20 min	▲ 100.0%	3
20–25 min	▲ 54.1%	37
25–30 min	▼ 47.4%	137
30–35 min	▲ 54.5%	165
35–40 min	▼ 48.1%	106
40–45 min	▲ 57.1%	35
45–50 min	▲ 70.0%	10
50–55 min	▼ 25.0%	4
55–60 min	▼ 0.0%	1
60–65 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 30:00: 49.7% wins; later: 52.5%.