Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lifestealer wins the Lifestealer vs Silencer matchup: Lifestealer beats Silencer in 50.45% of 15,823 ranked matches.
Fighting into a Silencer is all about one button for Lifestealer: Rage. If Lifestealer can activate Rage, he can run at Silencer and ignore most of his spells, dispelling things like Last Word. The problem is Global Silence, which prevents him from using Rage in the first place. This turns every engagement into a tense standoff. Silencer can also chip away with pure damage from Glaives of Wisdom, which goes through the magic immunity, but it’s often not enough to overcome Lifestealer's own lifesteal if he can connect with a target.
Success in this matchup comes down to which hero gets to dictate the fight. Lifestealer will look for a clean Infest initiation, hoping to burst Silencer before he can press his ultimate. Silencer, on the other hand, plays from the back and relies on his team to locate and hold Lifestealer for a moment. That brief window is all he needs to use Global Silence, turning Lifestealer into an easy target. The fight often hinges entirely on which of these two plans works first.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Lifestealer's win rate against Silencer 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 | 47.84% | 809 |
| Crusader & Archon | 50.97% | 2,372 |
| Legend & Ancient | 52.46% | 2,192 |
| Divine & Immortal | 49.04% | 628 |
Lifestealer's win rate against Silencer 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 50.45% | ▲ +1.0pp | 15,823 |
| 7.41d | 49.45% | ▲ +0.3pp | 164,353 |
| 7.41c | 49.15% | ▼ -0.2pp | 83,046 |
| 7.41b | 49.34% | — | 92,743 |
Move this data into a draft
Lifestealer starts on Radiant and Silencer on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 17, 2026.