Templar Assassin — hero grid for mains

Every Dota client, Russian included, shows the name Templar Assassin. Short names for Templar Assassin you will see in chat: “ta”. On Russian servers you will hear “Темплар Ассасин” (or “та” and “темпларка”).

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Slows down enemies with traps”.

Search in the hero picker is forgiving: “Templar Assassin”, “Темплар Ассасин”, “ta” — each of them lands on Templar Assassin.

Templar Assassin is an Agility hero (35 of them in the game), ranged, complexity 2 of 3 by Valve's rating.

Role dots from Valve: Carry ●●○, Escape ●○○ — no role at the full three.

In the ready layouts that means the “AGILITY” (15th of 35) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (48th of 59) band of By complexity.

Templar Assassin is carry (1) first of all, with mid at 0.31 as the fallback. All five scores (best = 1): carry 1 · mid 0.31 · offlane 0.01 · soft support 0 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Templar Assassin in the “1 · CARRY” row and nowhere else.

Lanes over 942 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 80%, mid 19%, off 1%. Median GPM 634, XPM 883 — core-level gold on the site's scale (540 and up).

For a layout by role, take Classic: positions 1–5: Templar Assassin is already there, 18th of 18 in “1 · CARRY”.

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Templar Assassin: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); not in Two columns (44 cores and 44 supports).

The “Make a grid with Templar Assassin” button opens Mains + situational with Templar Assassin first in the MAINS block, followed by Weaver, Clinkz and Morphling — all three share the same main position (carry), the same attribute and ranged attack.

Then it is “Download grid” and hero_grid_config.json into Steam\userdata\<number>\570\remote\cfg while Dota is closed; load your current file in the “Your grid is ready” window and your old grids stay (install guide).

In the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026 Templar Assassin shows up in 223,740 games (73rd most played of 127) and wins 46.1% of them (114th).

Rank barely changes the picture: 45.7% at Herald–Crusader and 46.4% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Templar Assassin more than usual at Herald (+15%) and less at Legend (−5%).

Templar Assassin in the snapshot's pro matches: 6 picks, 2 wins, 3 bans. Turbo: 96,917 games at 45.8%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

For a grid with a Templar Assassin portrait, bring your own art: Picture to dots draws it in dots right on the field. Among the heroes with skins that are also played as carry, the closest to Templar Assassin are Shadow Fiend, Phantom Assassin and Drow Ranger — their dot drawings are ready for a carry grid.