How Pudge and Vengeful Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Pudge and Vengeful Spirit win 54.71% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 5,048 matches.
Picking these two heroes together offers powerful ways to isolate and secure kills. Vengeful Spirit provides a reliable stun with Magic Missile to set up an easy Meat Hook. Even if the target is only pulled part of the way, Nether Swap can bring them even deeper into your team for a certain kill. The combination works defensively too. Pudge often ends up in bad positions after a Dismember or a bad hook, and Venge can instantly save him with a Swap. This gives the Pudge player a safety net, allowing for more aggressive plays that would otherwise be too risky.
This duo creates pickoff threats across the entire map. In the early and mid-game, they excel at finding and killing lone heroes. The enemy team is forced to play more cautiously, grouping up and maintaining constant vision to avoid getting caught by the Hook-Swap combo. Their primary response is to either focus Vengeful Spirit down before she can use her ultimate or to split push effectively, forcing the Pudge and Venge to be in different places at once. If they can't break the pair up, they risk losing key heroes before a fight even starts.
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 | 55.45% | 1,542 |
| Crusader & Archon | 56.46% | 5,138 |
| Legend & Ancient | 54.00% | 4,598 |
| Divine & Immortal | 51.02% | 1,513 |
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 | 54.71% | ▲ +0.4pp | 5,048 |
| 7.41d | 54.31% | ▲ +2.0pp | 390,943 |
| 7.41c | 52.36% | ▼ -0.3pp | 114,448 |
| 7.41b | 52.61% | — | 107,111 |
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Data updated Aug 12, 2026.