Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41f win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Dragon Knight wins the Dragon Knight vs Lifestealer matchup: Dragon Knight beats Lifestealer in 50.20% of 70,889 ranked matches.
Feeling unkillable is Dragon Knight's main strength, stacking armor and health to become a walking fortress. Lifestealer directly counters this entire plan. Feast turns that massive health pool into a source of damage and healing for Lifestealer, making Dragon Knight his ideal target. To make matters worse, Dragon Knight’s primary lockdown, Dragon Tail, is completely ignored by Rage. This leaves DK unable to control Lifestealer during a fight or peel for his own backline, turning him into little more than a health battery that can’t fight back effectively.
This dynamic comes online in the mid-game when both heroes are looking to make space. Dragon Knight wants to use Elder Dragon Form to push towers and force fights, but Lifestealer is happy to meet him there. As soon as a fight breaks out, Lifestealer can Rage, ignore the stun, and start draining DK's health. The Dragon Knight player is often forced into buying defensive items like a Ghost Scepter or Heaven's Halberd much earlier than he'd like, delaying his own impact just to survive. Lifestealer, on the other hand, doesn't need to adapt his build at all.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Dragon Knight'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 | Dragon Knight win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 49.77% | 426 |
| Crusader & Archon | 48.61% | 1,907 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.23% | 2,614 |
| Divine & Immortal | 47.51% | 903 |
Dragon Knight'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 | Dragon Knight win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41f | 50.20% | ▲ +2.6pp | 70,889 |
| 7.41e | 47.65% | ▲ +0.5pp | 124,100 |
| 7.41d | 47.11% | ▼ -2.0pp | 60,501 |
| 7.41c | 49.14% | — | 36,025 |
Move this data into a draft
Dragon Knight 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.