How Ancient Apparition and Pugna perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Ancient Apparition and Pugna win 53.17% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,445 matches.
Trying to burst down a priority target from long range can work out with this pair. Pugna can Decrepify an enemy, making them vulnerable to Ancient Apparition's Ice Vortex and Ice Blast combination for a clean kill. The core issue is that putting both heroes on the same team creates a very fragile back line. They offer little lockdown and can be easily run over by aggressive initiators. Having both Pugna and Ancient Apparition in a draft puts a lot of pressure on the other cores to provide a strong frontline and control. Because the success of the duo depends so heavily on the rest of the team covering their shared weaknesses, the outcome is often unpredictable.
How this pairing performs across skill brackets — the duo's team win rate 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 | Team win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 53.52% | 142 |
| Crusader & Archon | 51.23% | 365 |
| Legend & Ancient | 57.14% | 280 |
This duo's team win rate in each recent balance patch — whether the pairing is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Team win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 53.17% | ▲ +3.4pp | 2,445 |
| 7.41d | 49.78% | ▼ -0.3pp | 25,660 |
| 7.41c | 50.12% | ▼ -0.4pp | 11,769 |
| 7.41b | 50.47% | — | 12,184 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.