How Death Prophet and Pudge perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Death Prophet and Pudge win 50.61% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 12,932 matches.
Getting hooked next to an active Death Prophet feels like a guaranteed trip back to the fountain. Pudge can pull a target completely out of position, and Dismember provides the perfect setup. While the enemy is stunned, Death Prophet can apply Spirit Siphon and her Silence, ensuring they can't fight back or escape. The combined damage from her Crypt Swarm and Exorcism ghosts focused on that single locked-down hero is often more than enough to secure the kill before anyone can react.
The friction comes from what happens after the laning stage. Death Prophet excels when she groups with her team, activates Exorcism, and runs at buildings as a durable frontliner. Pudge, however, typically gets his value from playing on the edges of the fight, looking for pick-offs with a key Meat Hook from the fog. This creates a strategic disconnect where Pudge is not always positioned to enable DP's siege, and DP isn't always around to capitalize on Pudge's ganks. They end up playing separate games instead of working as a cohesive unit.
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 | 50.58% | 862 |
| Crusader & Archon | 52.72% | 1,912 |
| Legend & Ancient | 52.64% | 1,514 |
| Divine & Immortal | 53.82% | 628 |
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 | 50.61% | ▲ +1.9pp | 12,932 |
| 7.41d | 48.68% | ▲ +0.6pp | 149,440 |
| 7.41c | 48.13% | ▼ -0.2pp | 75,026 |
| 7.41b | 48.33% | — | 77,908 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.