
Also known as: Toy Butcher
Pudge (Toy Butcher) in Dota 2 7.41: win rate, pick rate, the heroes Pudge counters and struggles against, and its best teammates — from recent ranked matches by Batru's AI win-prediction pipeline.
Pudge is a tanky roamer whose Meat Hook + Dismember picks a single hero out of position and deletes them. He thrives against immobile, squishy heroes he can hook from the fog: Tinker (57.2%), Nature's Prophet (56.8%) and Gyrocopter (55.5%) get yanked and bursted. Pudge is countered by tanks and scalers a single hook can't kill: Wraith King (43.3%) respawns and out-tanks, Spectre (45.4%) out-scales, and Dawnbreaker (45.5%) is too durable to delete. Draft tip: Pudge is a terrifying pick into squishy, low-mobility line-ups; his impact drops sharply into tanky, high-armor hard-carry drafts.
| Hero | Win Rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| 57.21% | 72,758 | |
| 56.76% | 114,020 | |
| 55.54% | 55,404 | |
| 54.96% | 64,089 | |
| 54.86% | 44,677 | |
| 54.63% | 94,764 | |
| 54.49% | 120,190 | |
| 54.22% | 12,205 |
| Hero | Win Rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| 43.34% | 228,265 | |
| 45.42% | 142,117 | |
| 45.46% | 108,836 | |
| 45.56% | 58,182 | |
| 45.86% | 259,627 | |
| 45.93% | 42,462 | |
| 46.11% | 214,491 | |
| 46.40% | 116,506 |
Pudge hands a single isolated, slowed target to his team — he wants burst follow-up and AoE that punishes the pick. He pairs best with nukers and clump control: Spectre (55.0%) and Wraith King (53.7%) finish whatever Pudge drags in, while Crystal Maiden (53.1%) and Grimstroke (53.0%) chain control + burst onto the hooked hero. Tidehunter (53.2%) loves the grouped fights Pudge forces. Give Pudge a team that converts one hook into a kill, and his ganks snowball the map.
| Hero | Win Rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| 55.02% | 137,939 | |
| 53.69% | 188,366 | |
| 53.23% | 152,134 | |
| 53.11% | 148,040 | |
| 52.98% | 54,407 | |
| 52.90% | 80,198 | |
| 52.62% | 62,893 | |
| 52.62% | 189,515 |