Dota 2 Item Builds

Highest win-rate item paths for every hero in patch 7.41: starting items, laning purchases, core timings and the situational answers that decide late-game fights.

Patch

7.41

Updated 2h ago

Builds tracked

127

One per hero, live purchase data

Most built item

Boots of Speed

96.9% of builds

Pub matches

Ranked sample, all brackets

Build of the patch

The strongest performing item path right now

Build of the patch

Lifestealer

Pos 3 · Offlane · Strength

Win rate

53.1%

Trend

-0.1

Pick rate

1.2%

Matches

693,162

Early game

04:00 — 12:00

Core build

12:00 — 26:00

Ability kit

Levelling order not tracked by the API

Trade aggressively while your regen advantage lasts — this item path assumes you win the lane tempo.

Full Lifestealer build

127 builds

All hero builds

Click any hero for the full item path, skills and talents

Pos 5 -1.7

Wraith King

Hard Support 54.6%

Pos 1 -0.3

Spectre

Carry 54.2%

Pos 2 +2.7

Bounty Hunter

Midlane 53.6%

Pos 3 -0.1

Lifestealer

Offlane 53.1%

Pos 4 -2.1

Vengeful Spirit

Soft Support 53.1%

Pos 1 +0.6

Phantom Lancer

Carry 53%

Pos 1 +0.1

Legion Commander

Carry 52.9%

Pos 1 +0.7

Outworld Devourer

Carry 52.9%

Pos 5 -0.4

Lich

Hard Support 52.6%

Pos 3 +0.8

Nyx Assassin

Offlane 52.2%

Pos 1 +0.7

Riki

Carry 52.2%

Pos 1 +1.4

Arc Warden

Carry 52.1%

Pos 1 +0.4

Juggernaut

Carry 52.1%

Pos 1 +0.2

Spirit Breaker

Carry 52.1%

Pos 4 +3.2

Visage

Soft Support 52.1%

Pos 3 -0.2

Dawnbreaker

Offlane 52%

Pos 5 -0.1

Shadow Shaman

Hard Support 52%

Pos 4 -1.5

Witch Doctor

Soft Support 52%

Pos 5 -1.3

Mirana

Hard Support 51.8%

Pos 3 -0.4

Troll Warlord

Offlane 51.8%

Pos 4 +0.4

Grimstroke

Soft Support 51.7%

Pos 1 +0

Chaos Knight

Carry 51.6%

Pos 2 +1

Night Stalker

Midlane 51.6%

Pos 4 -1.3

Ancient Apparition

Soft Support 51.5%

Item meta

Most purchased items across every tracked build

Boots of Speed

96.9%

-0.5

Blink Dagger

58.3%

-0.4

Staff of Wizardry

48%

-0.3

Ogre Axe

44.9%

-1

Black King Bar

43.3%

-1

Power Treads

42.5%

-1

Blade of Alacrity

41.7%

-0.8

Arcane Boots

41.7%

-0.3

Aghanim's Scepter

30.7%

-0.8

Bracer

29.1%

+0.1

Build timeline

What every item slot should be doing, minute by minute

00:00 — 10:00

Laning

Regen, stats and the first boots. Win the trade war, not the last hit count.

10:00 — 18:00

Tempo

Efficiency item or first utility spike. This is where the build decides the map.

18:00 — 30:00

Mid game

Core items complete. Force objectives while your power curve is ahead.

30:00+

Late game

Scaling and buybacks. Every extra item slot should answer an enemy threat.

Build FAQ

How the data is modelled

Where do these builds come from?

Item stages are the most purchased items per game stage for every hero, taken from OpenDota match data (itemPopularity) on patch 7.41. Win and pick rates come from the Immortal ranked bracket.

Should I always follow the core order?

No. The list is the highest-frequency default, not a strict order. Swap in situational items when the enemy draft demands a specific answer — silences, break, dispels or burst protection.

How often is the data refreshed?

Every hero is re-fetched from OpenDota on a rolling weekly cycle. Skill and talent orders are not modelled — the public API does not expose them, so hero pages show the real ability kits without invented level sequences.

Build model built on patch 7.41 · updated 2h ago