How Puck and Pugna perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Puck and Pugna win 43.92% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,776 matches.
Having both Puck and Pugna on a team makes it too easy for opponents to itemize against your damage. Both heroes rely almost entirely on magical burst, so a single Pipe of Insight or early Black King Bars on enemy cores can shut down your whole game plan. This forces your other picks into very specific physical damage roles to compensate. Fights themselves can also feel clumsy. Pugna's Decrepify, while meant to amplify spells, can backfire by preventing Puck from finishing off a key target with right-clicks inside Dream Coil. They end up competing for a similar role without offering the lockdown or damage diversity needed to secure kills.
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 | 44.76% | 105 |
| Crusader & Archon | 41.63% | 233 |
| Legend & Ancient | 47.74% | 243 |
| Divine & Immortal | 45.97% | 124 |
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 | 43.92% | ▼ -2.5pp | 1,776 |
| 7.41d | 46.43% | ▼ -0.6pp | 20,452 |
| 7.41c | 47.07% | ▲ +0.9pp | 11,474 |
| 7.41b | 46.16% | — | 11,779 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.