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~16:36
Blink Dagger~19:03
Dragon Lance~18:18

Skill order, levels 1–25

43.4% · 76 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

12% · 50.0% · 64

0.8s Meld Hit Bash

88% · 57.6% · 458

+4 Meld Armor Reduction

71% · 49.9% · 595

Refraction Dispels

29% · 49.2% · 240

+3 Psionic Traps

3% · 59.5% · 37

+225 Meld Attack Range

97% · 47.6% · 1,157

+15% Psionic Trap Slow

41% · 52.1% · 380

+1.5s Meld Debuff Duration

59% · 44.9% · 557

+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

37.8% · 143

45.9% · 111

42.9% · 63

Neutral items

41.9% · 277

54.4% · 215

44.0% · 193

42.9% · 70

31.3% · 64

46.7% · 60

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~16:36

5–10 min	▲ 100.0%	2
10–15 min	▲ 58.5%	378
15–20 min	▼ 43.7%	670
20–25 min	▼ 32.3%	127
25–30 min	▼ 23.5%	17
30–35 min	▲ 50.0%	4
35–40 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 15:00: 58.7% wins; later: 41.5%.

Blink Dagger~19:03

5–10 min	▼ 0.0%	1
10–15 min	▲ 58.5%	118
15–20 min	▲ 52.6%	669
20–25 min	▼ 39.8%	339
25–30 min	▼ 17.3%	52
30–35 min	▼ 28.6%	7
35–40 min	▲ 100.0%	3
40–45 min	▼ 33.3%	3
45–50 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 15:00: 58.0% wins; later: 46.8%.

Dragon Lance~18:18

5–10 min	▲ 50.0%	36
10–15 min	▼ 45.4%	346
15–20 min	▲ 59.4%	266
20–25 min	▼ 43.6%	349
25–30 min	▼ 34.2%	76
30–35 min	▼ 33.3%	18
35–40 min	▼ 44.4%	9
40–45 min	▼ 25.0%	4
55–60 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 15:00: 45.8% wins; later: 48.0%.

Crystalys~26:28

10–15 min	▼ 22.2%	9
15–20 min	▲ 70.8%	65
20–25 min	▲ 62.0%	363
25–30 min	▼ 49.4%	259
30–35 min	▲ 52.5%	122
35–40 min	▼ 30.6%	49
40–45 min	▲ 52.2%	23
45–50 min	▲ 50.0%	6
50–55 min	▼ 40.0%	5
55–60 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 25:00: 62.5% wins; later: 48.4%.

Daedalus~31:40

20–25 min	▲ 74.7%	87
25–30 min	▲ 68.6%	226
30–35 min	▲ 59.3%	204
35–40 min	▼ 47.6%	147
40–45 min	▲ 57.1%	35
45–50 min	▼ 33.3%	15
50–55 min	▲ 80.0%	5
55–60 min	▲ 100.0%	1
60–65 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 30:00: 70.3% wins; later: 54.2%.

Force Staff~29:08

15–20 min	▲ 75.0%	16
20–25 min	▲ 58.3%	175
25–30 min	▲ 55.7%	244
30–35 min	▲ 50.8%	128
35–40 min	▲ 55.9%	93
40–45 min	▼ 41.4%	29
45–50 min	▼ 14.3%	7
55–60 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 25:00: 59.7% wins; later: 53.0%.

Hurricane Pike~29:40

15–20 min	▲ 50.0%	4
20–25 min	▲ 61.7%	162
25–30 min	▲ 54.3%	243
30–35 min	▲ 51.8%	137
35–40 min	▲ 55.7%	97
40–45 min	▼ 45.2%	31
45–50 min	▼ 14.3%	7
55–60 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 25:00: 61.4% wins; later: 52.7%.

Black King Bar~31:36

20–25 min	▲ 57.1%	70
25–30 min	▲ 56.4%	202
30–35 min	▼ 43.3%	210
35–40 min	▼ 45.9%	98
40–45 min	▼ 46.2%	39
45–50 min	▲ 75.0%	4
50–55 min	▼ 37.5%	8
60–65 min	▲ 50.0%	2

Bought before 30:00: 56.6% wins; later: 44.6%.