How Faceless Void and Lifestealer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Faceless Void and Lifestealer win 46.10% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,757 matches.
Splitting the map for two farm-hungry cores often creates pressure on your team's economy from the start. The core problem is how their abilities interact in a fight. Faceless Void wants to lock down key targets with Chronosphere, but the spell also freezes any allied units inside it. This makes it impossible for Lifestealer to attack anyone caught in a well-placed ultimate. Lifestealer relies on being up close and hitting enemies to be effective, so being frozen by his own teammate's spell negates his contribution entirely.
This difficult interaction means teamfights can feel clumsy. For the combo to work, Faceless Void must land a perfect Chronosphere that catches enemies but misses Lifestealer, which is highly situational and unreliable. More often, Lifestealer is forced to wait outside the fight until Chronosphere ends, giving opponents a chance to recover or use their spells. While Lifestealer can Infest Void to survive, he still can't attack from inside, making for an awkward sequence that often fails to secure a clean kill.
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 | 38.70% | 292 |
| Crusader & Archon | 42.17% | 498 |
| Legend & Ancient | 43.56% | 225 |
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 | 46.10% | ▼ -0.8pp | 2,757 |
| 7.41d | 46.91% | ▼ -1.5pp | 35,446 |
| 7.41c | 48.43% | ▲ +0.3pp | 22,641 |
| 7.41b | 48.16% | — | 22,269 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.