How Lifestealer and Storm Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lifestealer and Storm Spirit win 46.23% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,207 matches.
Using Infest on a Storm Spirit for a long-range initiation sounds good on paper, but their playstyles rarely align in a real fight. Storm Spirit excels at zipping past the frontline to assassinate a backline hero, leaving him deep in enemy territory. If Lifestealer emerges here, he's isolated and easily kited after his initial burst. Lifestealer is a front-to-back brawler who wants to stay in the fight, hitting the closest durable target. Storm is an elusive picker. They don't set each other up well, and both require significant farm to hit their independent timings, leading to teams that can feel greedy and lack a cohesive plan.
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 | 44.16% | 351 |
| Crusader & Archon | 45.96% | 1,088 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.02% | 1,073 |
| Divine & Immortal | 47.33% | 450 |
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 | 46.23% | ▼ -2.7pp | 1,207 |
| 7.41d | 48.96% | ▼ -0.3pp | 94,699 |
| 7.41c | 49.30% | ▲ +0.5pp | 54,234 |
| 7.41b | 48.83% | — | 54,457 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.