Lifestealer Counter Dota 2 2025: Heroes, Items and Matchups

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Lifestealer Dota 2 counter stats: All the Lifestealer info you could want with counter picks, heroes counter, item counter, matchups and more!

Lifestealer
Lifestealer

Attack Type: Melee

Strength: 25 + 2.4

Agility: 19 + 2.6

Intelligence: 15 + 1.8

Find Heroes To Counter Lifestealer

Below is a list of heroes weaker and stronger than Lifestealer.

Lifestealer is Weak Against

Lifestealer is Strong Against

Conclusion: Heroes that can counter Lifestealer include: Ancient Apparition, Bane, Beastmaster, Chaos Knight, Clinkz, Terrorblade.

Find Items To Counter Lifestealer

List of items to counter Lifestealer

Prioritize choosing items to counter Lifestealer such as: Force Staff, Orchid Malevolence, Manta Style, Heaven’s Halberd, Medallion of Courage, Solar Crest.

Find Tips To Counter Lifestealer ?

Pick kiting heroes: Heroes like Sniper or Windranger can kite Lifestealer and avoid his damage.

Dispel Rage: While Rage is a magic immune ability, heroes with long stuns (e.g., Lion, Bane) can disable him during its cooldown.

Silence him: Silencing Lifestealer (e.g., Silencer, Orchid) prevents him from using his abilities to escape or deal damage effectively.

Pick magic damage heroes: Lifestealer is weak to magic damage, so heroes like Lina or Zeus can burst him down quickly.

Interrupt his infest: Heroes with AoE stuns (e.g., Earthshaker) can prevent Lifestealer from bursting out of his host with Infest.

Build armor: Lifestealer deals primarily physical damage – items like Solar Crest or Crimson Guard reduce his damage output.

Use healing reduction: Items like Spirit Vessel or Urn of Shadows prevent Lifestealer from sustaining through his attacks.

Strength

  • Incredibly strong and slow.
  • Possesses an integrated BKB.
  • Challenging to gank with a ganker that depends on spells.
  • Lifesteal built right in is always a plus.
  • Regaining HP or ganking alongside a partner is made possible by Infest.

Weakness

  • Rather feeble at the beginning.
  • Jungler who moves a little slowly.
  • Extremely item-specific.

Lifestealer Matchups

Lifestealer Vs…

Ancient Apparition
Ancient Apparition		Win rate: 47.41%
Game: 46,311

Bane
Bane		Win rate: 47.59%
Game: 18,494
Beastmaster
Beastmaster		Win rate: 54.19%
Game: 4,739
Chaos Knight
Chaos Knight		Win rate: 52.13%
Game: 25,267
Clinkz
Clinkz		Win rate: 45.96%
Game: 45,199
Terrorblade
Terrorblade		Win rate: 54.18%
Game: 10,160
Axe
Axe		Win rate: 47.65%
Game: 113,197
Dark Willow
Dark Willow		Win rate: 51.10%
Game: 32,777
Invoker
Invoker		Win rate: 52.55%
Game: 101,961
Techies
Techies		Win rate: 51.43%
Game: 59,736
Tinker
Tinker		Win rate: 52.56%
Game: 18,317
Ogre Magi
Ogre Magi		Win rate: 49.65%
Game: 105,201

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