Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41f win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Lifestealer wins the Chen vs Lifestealer matchup: Lifestealer beats Chen in 56.30% of 3,128 ranked matches.
Drafting Chen into a potential Lifestealer is a major risk. The core of Chen’s game, building an army to control the map, gets turned into a liability. Lifestealer sees those high-health converted creeps not as a threat, but as a personal gold and health farm thanks to Feast. He can use Rage to ignore Penitence and any control from the creeps, letting him run straight at Chen or his allies. This completely neuters Chen’s early pressure timings and instead accelerates Lifestealer’s own farm. Without a threatening army, Chen can’t force objectives or create space, leaving him feeling pretty useless while actively feeding his own counter.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Chen's win rate against Lifestealer 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 | Chen win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 43.97% | 116 |
| Legend & Ancient | 43.59% | 117 |
Chen's win rate against Lifestealer in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Chen win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41f | 43.70% | ▲ +0.4pp | 3,128 |
| 7.41e | 43.29% | ▼ -1.1pp | 8,393 |
| 7.41d | 44.43% | ▼ -3.2pp | 7,175 |
| 7.41c | 47.64% | — | 4,425 |
Move this data into a draft
Chen starts on Radiant and Lifestealer on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Oct 4, 2026.