How Lifestealer and Ursa perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lifestealer and Ursa win 46.26% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 294 matches.
Pairing these two heroes feels like a way to guarantee a kill on any single target, but the massive overlap in their roles creates more problems than it solves. Both Lifestealer and Ursa are greedy melee cores who need to farm the same parts of the map to hit their timings. In fights, they want to do the exact same job: run at one hero and hit them until they fall over. This is often redundant and leaves your team with a critical lack of control or ranged damage. Since neither hero provides the lockdown the other needs to stick to a target, enemies can often kite them both, leaving your team with two under-farmed carries chasing shadows.
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 | 38.24% | 204 |
| Crusader & Archon | 45.33% | 364 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.46% | 184 |
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 | 46.26% | ▲ +0.1pp | 294 |
| 7.41d | 46.18% | ▲ +0.9pp | 26,520 |
| 7.41c | 45.28% | ▲ +0.3pp | 16,224 |
| 7.41b | 45.02% | — | 18,509 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.