Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Primal Beast wins the Lycan vs Primal Beast matchup: Primal Beast beats Lycan in 52.77% of 777 ranked matches.
Fighting Primal Beast head-on with your wolves often feels like the right play for Lycan, but it's usually a trap. Primal Beast loves being swarmed; all those small hits from summons quickly build stacks for his Uproar, making him incredibly tanky. He can then turn around and use Trample to wipe out the wolves and any other units, gutting a huge portion of Lycan’s damage. Lycan can still use Shapeshift’s speed to split-push and avoid a direct brawl, forcing rotations. However, if Primal Beast can catch Lycan and force a fight, he has the tools to dismantle the wolfpack. It complicates Lycan's game plan without completely shutting him down.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Lycan's win rate against Primal Beast 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 | 52.78% | 108 |
Lycan's win rate against Primal Beast 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 | 47.23% | ▼ -1.7pp | 777 |
| 7.41d | 48.96% | ▼ -1.7pp | 8,770 |
| 7.41c | 50.61% | ▲ +3.2pp | 5,246 |
| 7.41b | 47.43% | — | 4,691 |
Move this data into a draft
Lycan starts on Radiant and Primal Beast on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 17, 2026.