How Lifestealer and Templar Assassin perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lifestealer and Templar Assassin win 46.87% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 335 matches.
Stacking armor against this pair feels very effective. Both Lifestealer and Templar Assassin are physical damage cores who want to hit item timings and take over the mid-game, which can lead to them competing for safe farm. Their kits also have little overlap. Lifestealer really benefits from Infesting a mobile initiator with a hard stun to set up his kills, but Templar Assassin is a fragile hero who needs to position carefully for her own damage. While TA's Psionic Traps offer some slow, the duo lacks the reliable lockdown to hold a target in place. This often leaves them unable to secure kills against heroes with escape mechanisms.
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 | 46.59% | 176 |
| Crusader & Archon | 44.15% | 410 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.82% | 220 |
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 | 46.87% | ▲ +2.1pp | 335 |
| 7.41d | 44.82% | ▲ +0.2pp | 26,179 |
| 7.41c | 44.67% | ▲ +0.5pp | 14,086 |
| 7.41b | 44.21% | — | 18,815 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.