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Lifestealer
Lifestealer

Patch 7.41f15.09.2026-1.34 (1.34)

Abilities

Rage

Rage

  • NERFCooldown increased from 20/19/18/17s to 21/20/19/18s+5%+5%+6%+6%
Infest

Infest

  • NERFAghanim's Scepter Enemy Duration decreased from 5s to 4s-20%

Talents

  • NERFLevel 10 Talent: Movement Speed decreased from +20 to +15-25%

Patch 7.41a27.03.2026-5.38 (5.38)

GENERAL

  • NERFBase Damage decreased by 3?Now it's 23. Before this patch it was changed in 7.41 (234 days ago)Damage at level 1 decreased from 49–55 to 46–52-12%

Abilities

Ghoul Frenzy

Ghoul Frenzy

  • NERFBonus Attack Speed decreased from 5 per level to 4 per level-20%
Rage

Rage

  • NERFMovespeed Bonus decreased from 9/12/15/18% to 6/9/12/15%-33%-25%-20%-17%
Feast

Feast

  • NERFMax HP per Hero Kill decreased from 10/15/20/25 to 100%-33%-50%-60%

Patch 7.4124.03.2026+7.67 (13.86)

GENERAL

  • BUFFBase Damage increased by 10?Now it's 26. Before this patch it was changed in 7.36 (2 years 5 months ago)Damage at level 1 increased from 39–45 to 49–55+62%
  • BUFFBase Attack Speed increased from 100 to 120+20%
  • BUFFBase Movement Speed increased from 315 to 320+2%

Abilities

Ghoul Frenzy

Feast→Ghoul Frenzy

  • NEWNew innate ability.
Passive – scales with Infest
Lifestealer's attacks deal bonus physical damage equal to 2/2.25/2.5/2.75% of target's max health and lifesteal back 2/2.25/2.5/2.75% of target's max health.
Also allows hitting allied creeps below 75% health (default deny threshold is 50%).
Bonus damage
2/2.25/2.5/2.75%
Deny health threshold
75%
Default deny threshold
50%
→
Passive – scales with level
Occupies the slot vacated by Feast (Feast moved back to a regular ability).
Provides Lifestealer with 5 per level bonus Attack Speed at all times.
Attack speed per level
5
Rage

Rage

  • NEWNow also provides 9/12/15/18% bonus movement speed while active
Open Wounds

Open Wounds

  • BUFFMana Cost decreased from 100 to 90-10%
  • BUFFMax Slow increased from 35/40/45/50% to 50%+43%+25%+11%0%
Feast

Feast

  • REWORKNow is a basic ability
  • BUFFHeal From Target's Max Health rescaled from 2/2.25/2.5/2.75% to 1.45/2.05/2.65/3.25%-28%-9%+6%+18%
  • BUFFMax Health Damage rescaled from 2/2.25/2.5/2.75% to 1.45/2.05/2.65/3.25%-28%-9%+6%+18%
  • BUFFMax Health per Hero Kill increased from 10 to 10/15/20/25?Is not retroactive0%+50%+100%+150%
  • DELNo longer increases deny health threshold to 75%
Infest

Infest

  • NEWNow can be used on Ancient creeps by default
  • REWORKAghanim's Shard reworked: When consuming a creep, enemies also take damage over time equal to 30% of the creep's remaining health. Damage duration: 3s. Has no effect when bursting out of enemy heroes
  • REWORKAghanim's Shard reworked.
Infest explosion applies a 50% duration Open Wounds to enemies in the damage radius.
Open Wounds duration
50%
→
Consuming a creep with Infest drenches enemies in blood which deals damage over time based on the host's remaining health.
Damage from host health
30%
Damage over time duration
3s

Talents

  • SWAPLevel 10 Talent: +3% Ghoul Frenzy Movement Speed replaced with +20 Movement Speed
  • SWAPLevel 15 Talent: +15% Open Wounds Slow replaced with 50 Attack Speed on Open Wounds Target
  • SWAPLevel 15 Talent: +50 Ghoul Frenzy Attack Speed replaced with +175 Infest Damage
  • NERFLevel 20 Talent: Infest Target Movespeed/Health decreased from +15% to +12%-20%

Patch 7.39e02.10.2025-0.90 (0.90)

Abilities

Feast

Feast

  • DELHero Creeps no longer count as heroes for Lifestealer's permanent Health bonus

Patch 7.39b29.05.2025+0.81 (0.81)

Facets

Gorestorm

  • BUFFRemaining Health as Gorestorm Damage increased from 25% to 30%+20%

Patch 7.3922.05.2025+1.40 (3.10)

GENERAL

  • NERFBase Strength decreased from 25 to 23?Damage at level 1 decreased by 2 (from 41–47 to 39–45)-8%

Facets

Gorestorm

  • BUFFDamage over time debuff is now undispellable

Abilities

Feast

Feast

  • BUFFHeal from Target's Max Health rescaled from 1.5/2/2.5/3% to 2/2.25/2.5/2.75%+33%+12%0%-8%
  • BUFFMax Health Damage rescaled from 1.5/2/2.5/3% to 2/2.25/2.5/2.75%+33%+12%0%-8%
Infest

Infest

  • BUFFCreep Max HP Loss / sec decreased from 2/1/0% to 1.5/0.75/0%-25%-25%0%

Patch 7.38c27.03.2025-1.11 (1.11)

Facets

Fleshfeast

  • NERFMax HP per hero kill decreased from 20/25/30/35 to 15/20/25/30-25%-20%-17%-14%

Abilities

Open Wounds

Open Wounds

  • NERFMana Cost increased from 75 to 100+33%

Patch 7.38b06.03.2025-3.76 (4.52)

GENERAL

  • NERFBase Agility decreased by 4?Now it's 15. Before this patch it was changed in 7.30c (5 years 2 months ago)-21%

Facets

Fleshfeast

  • NERFMax HP per hero kill decreased from 25/35/45/55 to 20/25/30/35-20%-29%-33%-36%

Abilities

Feast

Feast

  • NERFMax HP per hero kill decreased from 15 to 10-33%
Infest

Infest

  • BUFFAghanim's Scepter attack rate improved from 1.25s to 1s-20%
  • DELAghanim's Scepter no longer disarms targeted enemy hero

Patch 7.3819.02.2025+1.34 (6.75)

GENERAL

  • NERFBase Movement Speed decreased from 320 to 315-2%

Facets

Rage, Unfettered

  • DELRemoved?Rage remains as Lifestealer's default basic ability

Fleshfeast

  • NEWNew facet
Passive: Feast
Max HP per Hero Kill increased from 15 to 25/35/45/55 depending on the current level of Infest
Active: Open Wounds
Cooldown is reset if a hero dies while afflicted by Open Wounds
Max health per Hero Kill
25/35/45/55

Gorestorm

  • NEWNew facet
Active: Infest
Allows the ability to be used on Ancient creeps
Consuming creep drenches affected enemies in blood for 3 seconds. Drenched enemies take damage equal to 25% of the host's remaining health over the duration
When cast with Aghanim's Scepter, Gorestorm damage is equal to 25% of the damage done to the hosted enemy hero by Lifestealer over the duration of Infest?Gorestorm counts any damage done by Lifestealer, including item effects and attack modifiers
Drench duration
3s
Host health as damage
25%

Abilities

Feast

Feast

  • QoLMax Health Gained now added to the post-game screen
Infest

Infest

  • NERFInfested Creeps now lose 2/1/0% of their max HP each second
  • DELCan no longer target Ancient creeps by default

Talents

  • SWAPLevel 10 Talent: +150 Infest Damage replaced with +4 All Stats

Patch 7.37d02.10.2024+0.38 (0.38)

Abilities

Feast

Feast

  • BUFFMax Health Life Steal increased from 1.25/1.75/2.25/2.75% to 1.5/2/2.5/3%+20%+14%+11%+9%
  • BUFFMax Health Damage increased from 1.25/1.75/2.25/2.75% to 1.5/2/2.5/3%+20%+14%+11%+9%

Patch 7.3731.07.2024+0.41 (0.41)

Facets

Corpse Eater→Rage

  • MISCNo longer gains permanent HP when killing a creep or hero (moved to Feast innate ability)

Abilities

Feast

Feast

  • NEWIn addition, Lifestealer gains permanent max HP whenever he kills a creep or hero. Max HP per creep kill: 1. Max HP per hero kill: 15