Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41f win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Lifestealer wins the Lifestealer vs Pudge matchup: Lifestealer beats Pudge in 51.19% of 219,256 ranked matches.
Landing a hook on a carry feels like a guaranteed kill, but against Lifestealer it’s often a mistake. Pudge wants to follow a hook with Dismember, but Lifestealer can simply use Rage to block the spell and all of Rot's damage. Now he's right next to Pudge with his main disable on cooldown. This is a disaster for Pudge because Lifestealer excels at manfighting high-health heroes. All those Flesh Heap stacks that make Pudge so durable against other cores become a liability, as Lifestealer's Feast drains that massive health pool extremely fast. He can’t be controlled and directly counters what makes Pudge tanky.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Lifestealer's win rate against Pudge 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 | Lifestealer win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 48.40% | 1,692 |
| Crusader & Archon | 51.51% | 8,171 |
| Legend & Ancient | 52.49% | 9,593 |
| Divine & Immortal | 51.61% | 3,073 |
Lifestealer's win rate against Pudge in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Lifestealer win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41f | 51.19% | ▼ -1.4pp | 219,256 |
| 7.41e | 52.60% | ▲ +0.7pp | 700,585 |
| 7.41d | 51.90% | ▼ -0.4pp | 462,610 |
| 7.41c | 52.33% | — | 215,306 |
Move this data into a draft
Lifestealer starts on Radiant and Pudge on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Oct 5, 2026.