How Lycan and Storm Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lycan and Storm Spirit win 40.98% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 122 matches.
Drafting both Lycan and Storm Spirit forces a team to choose between two different mid-game plans. Lycan wants to hit his timing, use Shapeshift, and group up to push down towers with his army. Storm Spirit wants to be a solo operator, using Ball Lightning to find pickoffs on isolated heroes across the map. The issue is these plans actively work against each other. Storm provides very little of the crowd control or team buffs that a Lycan deathball needs to succeed. Committing Storm to a five-man push neuters his ability to abuse his mobility, while Lycan is too slow to effectively join a gank without his ultimate. This results in a disjointed team.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 45.38% | 119 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.89% | 112 |
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 | 40.98% | ▼ -4.3pp | 122 |
| 7.41d | 45.24% | ▼ -0.2pp | 12,950 |
| 7.41c | 45.47% | ▲ +2.2pp | 7,731 |
| 7.41b | 43.27% | — | 4,470 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.