How Lifestealer and Windranger perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lifestealer and Windranger win 52.60% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,312 matches.
Thinking of this as a powerful Infest-bomb setup is often a mistake. In practice, these two heroes tend to play their own separate games right next to each other. Lifestealer wants to use Rage and get on top of a target, and while a good Shackleshot from Windranger certainly helps, Lifestealer already provides his own slow with Open Wounds. They're both focused on bursting down a single hero, but their abilities don't directly amplify each other. Windranger is also naturally slippery because of Windrun, so she rarely needs to be saved by a defensive Infest. They can win a fight together, but it's usually by killing a target in parallel, not through some special combo.
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 | 49.51% | 717 |
| Crusader & Archon | 52.99% | 2,242 |
| Legend & Ancient | 52.71% | 2,083 |
| Divine & Immortal | 50.49% | 713 |
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 | 52.60% | ▲ +1.6pp | 2,312 |
| 7.41d | 51.01% | ▲ +0.4pp | 163,563 |
| 7.41c | 50.63% | ▲ +0.0pp | 84,642 |
| 7.41b | 50.59% | — | 88,698 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.