How Lifestealer and Lycan perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lifestealer and Lycan win 51.48% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,962 matches.
Farming the same areas of the map can be a problem, as both Lifestealer and Lycan are greedy cores who need items to function. This can lead to a slow start and delayed timings for the whole team. While the classic Infest on a Shapeshifted Lycan provides a fast and deadly initiation, it's also a highly telegraphed, single-target play. It commits two major ultimates for one kill, and if the enemy has saves or is grouped together, the gank can easily fail. When that happens, your draft is left with two melee right-clickers who can struggle to contribute much else until their cooldowns are back. The strategy is powerful when it works, but inflexible when it doesn't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 52.51% | 259 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.65% | 310 |
| Divine & Immortal | 58.72% | 172 |
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 | 51.48% | ▲ +1.5pp | 1,962 |
| 7.41d | 50.00% | ▼ -1.5pp | 18,352 |
| 7.41c | 51.48% | ▲ +2.5pp | 10,506 |
| 7.41b | 48.94% | — | 8,308 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.