Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lycan wins the Lycan vs Mars matchup: Lycan beats Mars in 63.56% of 118 ranked matches.
Fighting inside Mars's Arena of Blood is usually a bad time, but Lycan often plays a game where that teamfight never happens. Mars excels at forcing a five-on-five brawl, trapping key targets for his team to burst down. Lycan, however, would rather avoid that scene entirely. Using the extreme speed from Shapeshift, he can apply pressure across the map, forcing rotations and picking off isolated heroes. While Mars is looking for the perfect ultimate, Lycan and his summons are already hitting a tower or taking Roshan. He creates a pace that Mars struggles to keep up with, and his ability to split the map up undermines Mars's desire for a big, centered teamfight.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Lycan's win rate against Mars 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 | Lycan win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 63.48% | 115 |
| Legend & Ancient | 58.41% | 113 |
Lycan's win rate against Mars in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Lycan win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 63.56% | ▲ +9.8pp | 118 |
| 7.41d | 53.74% | ▲ +1.3pp | 10,530 |
| 7.41c | 52.47% | ▲ +1.4pp | 9,383 |
| 7.41b | 51.08% | — | 8,195 |
Move this data into a draft
Lycan starts on Radiant and Mars on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 11, 2026.