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Keeper of the Light + Lifestealer

How Keeper of the Light and Lifestealer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.

As teammates
Together 53.76%
Win rate when Keeper of the Light and Lifestealer are on the same team, over 9,705 ranked matches (7.41e).

In Dota 2 7.41e, Keeper of the Light and Lifestealer win 53.76% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 9,705 matches.

Why this works

Taking objectives and controlling tempo gets much simpler with this pair. Keeper of the Light’s ability to Recall an Infested Lifestealer to his location creates a global gank threat that forces opponents to play defensively. An enemy hero farming a lane alone is never truly safe. In teamfights, the synergy continues. By using Chakra Magic on Lifestealer, Keeper of the Light dramatically lowers the cooldown of Rage. This means Lifestealer can be magic immune for most of a fight, letting him stay on his target and ignore enemy spells that would normally kite or disable him.

The game plan is to accelerate Lifestealer's farm and then use him to break the map open. Early on, Keeper of the Light can help secure lanes and provide the mana for Lifestealer to farm aggressively. Once the Recall-Infest combo is online, they start hunting for pickoffs, translating those kills into tower pressure and map control. To counter this, the enemy team has to stay grouped and invest heavily in vision, which slows down their own farm. Their only real opening is to try and burst Lifestealer in the small gaps between his Rage uses, a difficult task when KotL is nearby to protect him or provide another cooldown reduction.

Keeper of the Light + Lifestealer by rank

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.

RankTeam win rateMatches
Herald & Guardian55.65%487
Crusader & Archon53.22%1,383
Legend & Ancient56.26%1,358
Divine & Immortal57.07%615

Keeper of the Light + Lifestealer 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.

PatchTeam win rateChangeMatches
7.41e 53.76%▲ +1.0pp9,705
7.41d 52.78%▲ +0.7pp90,700
7.41c 52.11%▼ -0.7pp34,942
7.41b 52.79%41,169

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Frequently asked questions

Do Keeper of the Light and Lifestealer work well together in Dota 2?
As teammates, Keeper of the Light and Lifestealer win 53.76% of ranked matches in patch 7.41e (9,705 matches) — above the 50% baseline for a duo.
How many matches back the Keeper of the Light + Lifestealer number?
9,705 quality-filtered ranked matches from patch 7.41e, refreshed as new matches are ingested daily.

Data updated Aug 17, 2026.