Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lycan wins the Lycan vs Tinker matchup: Lycan beats Tinker in 53.02% of 1,307 ranked matches.
Picking Lycan into Tinker is a bet that you can end the game before Tinker comes online. Lycan wants to group his summons and run at buildings, forcing fights and shrinking the map. This directly attacks Tinker's need for space to farm lanes and jungle camps safely. A successful Lycan game means Tinker is constantly reacting and has no room to build his core items. However, Tinker has good tools to delay this aggression. March of the Machines clears out wolves and lane creeps, while Laser can blind Lycan during a Shapeshift-fueled gank attempt, allowing Tinker to escape. The game becomes a race, one Lycan is slightly favored to win by forcing his own tempo.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Lycan's win rate against Tinker 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 | 56.06% | 198 |
| Legend & Ancient | 55.70% | 158 |
Lycan's win rate against Tinker 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 | 53.02% | ▲ +0.3pp | 1,307 |
| 7.41d | 52.73% | ▲ +0.7pp | 13,278 |
| 7.41c | 52.01% | ▲ +1.0pp | 6,151 |
| 7.41b | 51.05% | — | 4,490 |
Move this data into a draft
Lycan starts on Radiant and Tinker on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 17, 2026.