Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41f win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Dragon Knight wins the Dragon Knight vs Pugna matchup: Dragon Knight beats Pugna in 50.37% of 18,163 ranked matches.
Pushing towers with Elder Dragon Form becomes difficult when Pugna is defending. His Nether Blast clears creep waves from a safe distance, making it hard for a team to commit, while a well-placed Nether Ward punishes Dragon Knight for using his spells to siege or fight. Decrepify can save a tower or an ally from Dragon Knight's physical damage, buying crucial time and slowing down the objective-based pace he wants to set. This constant pressure on his mana pool and push timings can be very frustrating. While Dragon Knight can eventually build items like a Black King Bar to ignore these threats, Pugna's spells are fundamentally designed to stall out his mid-game power spike.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Dragon Knight's win rate against Pugna in recent ranked matches, split by average match rank. Ranks with too few recent matches are omitted. These rows use the last 30 days of quality-filtered ranked matches, all patches in that span combined — a wider window than the patch-scoped count above, so the per-rank match totals can exceed it.
| Rank | Dragon Knight win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 55.41% | 157 |
| Crusader & Archon | 50.47% | 527 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.03% | 580 |
| Divine & Immortal | 53.54% | 127 |
Dragon Knight's win rate against Pugna in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Dragon Knight win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41f | 50.37% | ▼ -0.3pp | 18,163 |
| 7.41e | 50.66% | ▲ +1.3pp | 33,513 |
| 7.41d | 49.31% | ▲ +1.2pp | 26,733 |
| 7.41c | 48.09% | — | 13,609 |
Move this data into a draft
Dragon Knight starts on Radiant and Pugna on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Oct 4, 2026.