How Pugna and Wraith King perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Pugna and Wraith King win 58.50% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 800 matches.
Trying to bring down a fed Wraith King is a huge problem for most teams. Add a Pugna to the mix, and it becomes almost impossible. Pugna can use Life Drain to sustain Wraith King through an incredible amount of focus fire. If the enemy team finally manages to burn through his first life, he just comes back with Reincarnation at full health and mana, and Pugna can immediately start healing him again. It forces the other team to kill him twice while also dealing with a constant source of healing, turning him into a near-immortal raid boss.
This combination allows your team to group up and push objectives relentlessly. Wraith King provides the frontline presence and tower damage, while Pugna's Nether Blast adds to the siege. The obvious counter is to ignore the carry and burst the fragile Pugna first. This makes positioning key. A good Wraith King will play to protect his healer, using his stun to peel for Pugna. Against physical-heavy lineups, Pugna can also use a defensive Decrepify on Wraith King to completely negate their damage, buying time for his lifesteal or cooldowns to come back online.
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 | 52.85% | 386 |
| Crusader & Archon | 57.43% | 895 |
| Legend & Ancient | 58.57% | 659 |
| Divine & Immortal | 55.71% | 140 |
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 | 58.50% | ▲ +3.7pp | 800 |
| 7.41d | 54.80% | ▲ +1.8pp | 66,396 |
| 7.41c | 53.02% | ▼ -0.2pp | 32,854 |
| 7.41b | 53.21% | — | 34,493 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.