How Bane and Lycan perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41f, from ranked matches.
As teammates
Together 47.02%
Win rate when Bane and Lycan are on the same team, over 2,950 ranked matches (7.41f).
In Dota 2 7.41f, Bane and Lycan win 47.02% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,950 matches.
Why this works
Setting up a kill with Fiend's Grip for Lycan and his summons is the obvious play. The long, single-target disable gives Lycan plenty of time to run a hero down and secure a pick-off, especially during the mid-game. The disconnect happens when you look at their overall game plans. Bane excels at controlling teamfights and enabling ganks with his team. Lycan, however, wants to be a solo objective-taking machine, constantly applying pressure to towers across the map. This means they are often in different places, making it hard to coordinate. Unless Bane follows Lycan around specifically to set up ganks, their powerful on-paper combo doesn't come online often enough to consistently swing the game.
Bane + Lycan across patches
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
7.41f
47.02%
▼ -2.8pp
2,950
7.41e
49.86%
▼ -0.7pp
9,470
7.41d
50.57%
▲ +1.4pp
9,678
7.41c
49.13%
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3,987
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