How Anti-Mage and Pugna perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Anti-Mage and Pugna win 50.18% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 9,274 matches.
Playing two different games at once is the main problem here. Pugna wants to group up with his team from the mid-game onward, using Nether Blast to siege towers and force fights. Anti-Mage, on the other hand, needs to be left alone to farm creeps across the map for a long time. Their game plans are opposite. Even when they do fight together, Pugna can easily disrupt his own carry. Throwing Decrepify on an enemy to set up a spell also makes them immune to physical damage, which means Anti-Mage can't hit them.
This timing clash puts the rest of the team in a bind. They are either playing four-on-five trying to follow Pugna's aggression, or they're playing passively to protect Anti-Mage's farm. The whole draft is split between an early-game push strategy and a late-game farm strategy, without a clear bridge between them. Winning with this duo often means one hero's game plan had to be sacrificed for the other's, or the enemy team simply failed to punish the obvious strategic divide.
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 | 47.20% | 500 |
| Crusader & Archon | 50.58% | 1,121 |
| Legend & Ancient | 48.68% | 719 |
| Divine & Immortal | 54.50% | 189 |
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 | 50.18% | ▲ +1.0pp | 9,274 |
| 7.41d | 49.15% | ▲ +0.8pp | 75,463 |
| 7.41c | 48.33% | ▲ +0.1pp | 34,091 |
| 7.41b | 48.25% | — | 32,923 |
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Data updated Aug 18, 2026.