How Clinkz and Lifestealer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Clinkz and Lifestealer win 51.88% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 4,254 matches.
Creating space for two carries to farm can be difficult, but this pairing has a specific way of doing it. Lifestealer can use Infest on Clinkz, who then uses Skeleton Walk to deliver them both invisibly to an enemy. When they break the invisibility, Lifestealer’s Open Wounds provides a strong slow while Clinkz unloads his burst damage. This combination allows them to hunt for isolated heroes from the early mid-game onwards, turning successful ganks into map control and safer farm for themselves.
The game plan for this duo is to get ahead by repeatedly picking off key targets and then pushing that advantage into objectives. If Clinkz and Lifestealer can find kills, they can often snowball the game before the enemy can react. However, the strategy relies heavily on finding those single targets. Against teams that group up early and force five-on-five fights, both heroes can find themselves kited or overwhelmed, as their strength lies in single-target deletion rather than large-scale teamfights.
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 | 46.68% | 437 |
| Crusader & Archon | 50.73% | 684 |
| Legend & Ancient | 53.81% | 407 |
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 | 51.88% | ▲ +2.0pp | 4,254 |
| 7.41d | 49.93% | ▼ -0.7pp | 45,646 |
| 7.41c | 50.64% | ▼ -1.1pp | 22,232 |
| 7.41b | 51.69% | — | 27,621 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.