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You picked a rather more tricky combo there, I'd say. It's workable but harder than Priest/Rogue. As a general sort of overview:
You should beat most 2 dps teams, even though Rogue/Mage combos can be tricky.
You should have a decent chance against Warrior/Healer teams.
Rogue/Healer teams will beat you more often than you will beat them. At even skill, they will win.
That last line is a problem because 2v2 is positively infested with Rogues. If half the teams you play are Rogue based teams then you'll probably not rise much in rating.
So what you really need to learn is how to beat Warrior/Healer and Rogue/Healer.
Against Warriors the Priest must be aggressively doing damage to the Warrior and dispelling his various buffs. The Warlock must CC the enemy healer with Deathcoil, Spell Lock, Fear, Curse of Tongues and so on to interrupt the healing. Often it's possible to kill a Warrior in the opening moments of a game like that. If this first gib fails then you have to survive until the enemy Healer is not affected by diminishing returns on Fear anymore and then try again. Outlasting often doesn't work unless the Priest can drink a lot, which isn't easy to do.
Against Rogue healer combos you need to fear the Rogue whenever possible. If the Rogue has a Paladin or Priest then you have to fear them both at the same time. The Lock fears the Healer then the Priest the Rogue. That way the Priest gets ~10 seconds every 27 seconds to recover before the Rogue is back. Enough time to heal up and have a few sips of Drink. Keep the other healer in combat with the Warlock pet and keep the pet alive. Against Paladin or Priest both of you should focus on burning or draining mana because you won't be able to do much damage. Throw a few dots when the Dispeller is feared. Curse of Weakness on the Rogue helps if Rogues kill you too quickly. Sadly you can't gib a Rogue like a Warrior because he will just cloak and get healed, or Cheat Death will proc and he will get healed. So you have to run the others out of mana, which is hard. Drink whenever you can. If the Rogue is on the Priest then the Lock has to pressure the other team by counter spelling heals, casting shadow bolts, mana draining and fearing. At higher ratings the Priest will usually be free to chase the enemy healer and drink while keeping the Warlock topped up.
Rogue/Shadow is easy to beat I think. Tongues on Priest, Weakness on Rogue, Fear Priest, Scream Rogue, use all cooldowns to survive, los Priest, Spell Lock Priest, Drain/Burn Priest, win. The Priest damage rarely is a problem for us and the Rogue will soon need heals. Then you're up against an inefficient Healer.
Good luck. Please ask more specific questions next time.
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