How Lifestealer and Medusa perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lifestealer and Medusa win 48.11% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,478 matches.
Putting these two cores on one team creates a lot of pressure on your map's resources. Both Lifestealer and Medusa are farm-dependent heroes who want to occupy the safest lanes and jungle camps to get their core items online. This competition can slow down the item progression for one or both of them, leading to a passive mid-game where the enemy dictates the tempo. If the game does go late, a well-placed Stone Gaze can create the perfect window for Lifestealer to use Rage and deal uninterrupted damage. However, surviving the mid-game with two scaling cores can be difficult, making the pairing's success conditional on having enough space to get there.
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 | 44.68% | 188 |
| Crusader & Archon | 41.97% | 274 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.15% | 130 |
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 | 48.11% | ▲ +1.5pp | 1,478 |
| 7.41d | 46.60% | ▼ -1.8pp | 17,804 |
| 7.41c | 48.44% | ▼ -1.4pp | 9,836 |
| 7.41b | 49.86% | — | 11,922 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.