How Lich and Storm Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lich and Storm Spirit win 43.83% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 988 matches.
Picking Lich for a Storm Spirit often seems like a good idea, but the kits don't mesh as well as you'd think. The main issue is Sinister Gaze. It forces an enemy to walk towards Lich, which can pull them out of Storm's Static Remnants or away from where Storm is trying to land his combo. Storm Spirit needs a clean, stationary target to unload everything, and a taunt that moves the enemy around is more of a disruption than a setup. Lich's slows are helpful, but they don't provide the instant, hard lockdown Storm needs to guarantee a solo kill before he has to escape.
During the laning phase, the combination is fine but not oppressive; Storm might get a few extra Overload hits, but it rarely translates into a kill. As the game progresses, their preferred positioning diverges completely. Lich wants to hang back, protect a core with Frost Shield, and look for a big Chain Frost. At the same time, Storm Spirit is deep in the enemy backline trying to assassinate a support. They simply want to fight in different places. Unless the enemy clumps up perfectly, the two heroes often feel like they're playing separate games within the same teamfight.
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 | 48.44% | 320 |
| Crusader & Archon | 47.19% | 926 |
| Legend & Ancient | 45.71% | 862 |
| Divine & Immortal | 41.91% | 408 |
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 | 43.83% | ▼ -6.3pp | 988 |
| 7.41d | 50.18% | ▼ -0.3pp | 102,723 |
| 7.41c | 50.46% | ▲ +1.5pp | 60,124 |
| 7.41b | 48.97% | — | 49,500 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.