How Chaos Knight and Pudge perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Chaos Knight and Pudge win 52.86% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 18,746 matches.
Setting up a gank with this pair feels promising. Pudge can land a Meat Hook to bring a target right to Chaos Knight, who follows up with Reality Rift and Chaos Bolt for an extended lockdown. If the target somehow survives that initial burst, Dismember can hold them in place for Phantasm illusions to finish the job. The theory is sound, as both heroes excel at isolating and eliminating a single enemy. They both want to do the exact same thing, which is hunt for pickoffs across the map and turn that into an advantage.
The trouble is that both heroes commit heavily to this single-target plan. If the initial Hook misses or the enemy team starts grouping up to protect their allies, the strategy falls apart. Neither Chaos Knight nor Pudge offers much in the way of clearing creep waves, so the team can easily lose map pressure if ganks are not successful. Without kills to fuel their momentum, they can find themselves unable to push towers or farm effectively, leaving the game's outcome to chance as they wait for the next long cooldown.
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 | 52.60% | 1,192 |
| Crusader & Archon | 54.58% | 2,532 |
| Legend & Ancient | 51.35% | 1,443 |
| Divine & Immortal | 51.50% | 367 |
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 | 52.86% | ▲ +1.7pp | 18,746 |
| 7.41d | 51.18% | ▲ +0.6pp | 153,707 |
| 7.41c | 50.54% | ▲ +0.5pp | 57,977 |
| 7.41b | 50.02% | — | 63,834 |
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Data updated Aug 18, 2026.