How Centaur Warrunner and Lifestealer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Centaur Warrunner and Lifestealer win 51.53% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,442 matches.
Seeing a Centaur Warrunner charge into your team is disorienting enough. The situation gets more complicated when a Lifestealer can be inside him using Infest. Centaur provides the stun with Hoof Stomp to lock a target down, creating a clean setup for Lifestealer to appear and immediately start doing damage. The target has very little time to react between the stun and a follow-up slow from Lifestealer, making this a reliable way to secure a kill on a key hero.
This pairing gives their team a consistent tool for picking off heroes from the mid-game onward. Centaur Warrunner doesn't even need a Blink Dagger for this to work; he can simply run at a target with Lifestealer hidden. This forces enemies to position more carefully and have save abilities ready for whoever gets initiated on. If the opponents can burst the Centaur before he can get his stun off, they can disrupt the plan, but it demands coordination and good vision to anticipate the gank.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 49.29% | 280 |
| Crusader & Archon | 51.61% | 1,273 |
| Legend & Ancient | 53.87% | 1,407 |
| Divine & Immortal | 50.49% | 511 |
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 | 51.53% | ▼ -1.9pp | 1,442 |
| 7.41d | 53.44% | ▲ +0.0pp | 71,838 |
| 7.41c | 53.43% | ▲ +1.9pp | 33,806 |
| 7.41b | 51.54% | — | 37,587 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.