How Puck and Sniper perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Puck and Sniper win 45.79% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 522 matches.
Picking these two together puts a lot of pressure on the other three heroes to provide a frontline. Puck is great at starting a fight with Dream Coil, but isn't the one who can stand there and take hits. Sniper needs exactly that kind of hero to create space and draw attention. While Puck can silence an area and leash enemies, this control isn't enough to stop divers from reaching the backline. A hero caught in the Coil can still turn and attack Sniper, who has no way to defend himself up close. This leaves a huge gap in the team's structure that has to be filled.
In teamfights, this structural problem becomes obvious. The enemy team can often ignore Puck's initial burst and simply run at Sniper. Puck is forced to Phase Shift to survive, leaving Sniper completely exposed and unable to contribute sustained damage. For this composition to work, Puck has to land a perfect multi-hero Coil while somehow also staying alive, and the team needs another core to stand between the fight and Sniper. More often than not, the two heroes end up playing separate games within the same fight, unable to effectively protect or enable each other.
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 | 45.55% | 292 |
| Crusader & Archon | 45.80% | 572 |
| Legend & Ancient | 42.43% | 469 |
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 | 45.79% | ▲ +0.2pp | 522 |
| 7.41d | 45.59% | ▼ -1.9pp | 55,212 |
| 7.41c | 47.46% | ▲ +1.4pp | 31,516 |
| 7.41b | 46.04% | — | 30,399 |
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Data updated Aug 12, 2026.