How Alchemist and Lycan perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Alchemist and Lycan win 47.41% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 715 matches.
A shared focus on accelerated farming defines the game's tempo with this pair. Lycan and Alchemist both want to hit an early power spike and immediately convert it into objectives. Lycan brings the tower pressure with his summons and Shapeshift, while Alchemist can provide area denial and armor reduction with Acid Spray. A common plan involves Alchemist farming an Aghanim's Scepter to grant Lycan the Wolf Bite ability, adding another transformed core to the push. This approach is risky, however. Both heroes require significant resources to come online, and if they fall behind early, the team is left with two greedy cores who missed their critical timing window, making recovery difficult.
How this pairing performs across skill brackets — the duo's team win rate 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 | Team win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 45.24% | 126 |
This duo's team win rate in each recent balance patch — whether the pairing is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Team win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 47.41% | ▲ +1.9pp | 715 |
| 7.41d | 45.48% | ▼ -5.4pp | 9,660 |
| 7.41c | 50.88% | ▼ -0.4pp | 9,681 |
| 7.41b | 51.28% | — | 10,639 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.