Dota 2 Counter Picks

Pick the enemy hero and get the punish: hardest answers, the heroes they eat for free, the items that break them and the lane matchups that decide the first ten minutes.

Patch

7.41

Updated 1h ago

Matchups tracked

12,524

Recent high-level matches, OpenDota

Best answer

Lone Druid

75% vs Puck

Top counters win

65.8%

Average of the eight best picks

Playing against

Puck

INT Pos 3 · Off

46.8%win rate

Hardest answer

Lone Druid

AGI Pos 3 · Off

75%vs this hero

+25

advantage

Lone Druid eats the burst combo and walks out of it alive.

Full Puck report

/ Pick the enemy hero

127 heroes

Struggles against

Heroes that beat Puck

Dominates

Heroes Puck beats

/ Items against Puck

Purchase rate in winning games

Aghanim's Scepter 6.9% Core pickup on Lone Druid, Oracle — the strongest answers in this matchup.
Blink Dagger 6.3% Core pickup on Lone Druid, Oracle — the strongest answers in this matchup.
Ogre Axe 6.1% Core pickup on Lone Druid, Oracle — the strongest answers in this matchup.
Hyperstone 5.8% Core pickup on Lone Druid — the strongest answers in this matchup.
Staff of Wizardry 5.6% Core pickup on Lone Druid, Oracle — the strongest answers in this matchup.
Point Booster 5.5% Core pickup on Lone Druid, Oracle — the strongest answers in this matchup.

/ Off lane matchups

Same-position opponents · role estimate

Lone Druid 75%
Magnus 62.8%
Nyx Assassin 61.9%
Huskar 59.1%
Centaur Warrunner 58.9%

Ban priority

Contest rate of the best answers

Bounty Hunter 87.3%
Lone Druid 65.6%
Nature's Prophet 65.1%
Centaur Warrunner 20.6%
Bane 19.6%

/ How to draft against Puck

01
Take the Off matchup seriously — Puck converts a won lane into map control faster than most heroes in the tier.
02
Lone Druid is the cleanest answer in the pool with a 75% win rate over 36 tracked games.
03
Spend the early ward and dust budget on vision, not on damage — the hero only dies when the escape is tracked.
04
Stack magic resistance across the team instead of on a single core; the burst is spread damage, not a single-target combo.
05
Ban priority stays high whenever Puck is picked into a Pos 3 slot with a comfort player behind it.

/ Hardest matchups in the patch

Biggest advantage gaps among meta heroes

Next step

Puck item build →

Context

Patch 7.41 meta report →