How Lifestealer and Troll Warlord perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lifestealer and Troll Warlord win 51.18% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,401 matches.
Running two greedy cores can stretch the map's resources thin. Both Lifestealer and Troll Warlord want to be the main physical damage threat, farming the safest lanes and jungle camps to hit their timings. This creates a natural tension over who gets priority, potentially leaving one core underfunded and ineffective for key fights. While they can sometimes combine their strengths, like using Infest on a charging Troll or focusing down Roshan together, it's not a natural pairing. Their abilities don't set each other up very well. The success of this duo often depends more on outplaying the opponent early than on any inherent teamwork between the two heroes themselves.
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 | 49.06% | 212 |
| Crusader & Archon | 43.41% | 205 |
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 | 51.18% | ▲ +1.5pp | 1,401 |
| 7.41d | 49.72% | ▼ -0.2pp | 16,568 |
| 7.41c | 49.89% | ▼ -0.2pp | 9,508 |
| 7.41b | 50.06% | — | 10,498 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.