How Dark Willow and Puck perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Dark Willow and Puck win 45.43% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 2,560 matches.
Fighting into the mid-game, this pair offers a lot of the same tools, which is exactly the problem. Both Puck and Dark Willow want to deal magical burst damage and provide elusive control. This makes your team's game plan very one-dimensional. The enemy team can build a single Pipe of Insight and dramatically reduce the impact of two of your heroes. Their control spells can also be awkward to coordinate; Puck wants to initiate with Dream Coil up close, while Dark Willow often prefers to cast Cursed Crown from the back lines. This leaves you with overlapping damage types and initiations that don't quite sync up, making it too easy for opponents to itemize against your entire strategy.
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 | 33.33% | 108 |
| Crusader & Archon | 40.51% | 274 |
| Legend & Ancient | 51.06% | 329 |
| Divine & Immortal | 50.83% | 240 |
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 | 45.43% | ▲ +0.1pp | 2,560 |
| 7.41d | 45.29% | ▼ -0.7pp | 27,518 |
| 7.41c | 46.00% | ▲ +0.5pp | 13,369 |
| 7.41b | 45.48% | — | 14,291 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.