Pugna — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Pugna — the same in the English and the Russian client. There is no common English short name for Pugna in the site's dictionary. Russian-speaking players say “Пугна”.

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Drains enemy life to heal himself”.

In the editor's hero picker, typing “Pugna” or “Пугна” brings up Pugna.

Pugna: Intelligence attribute, shared with 33 other heroes; ranged attack; Valve rates the complexity medium, 2 of 3.

Role dots from Valve: Nuker ●●○, Pusher ●●○ — no role at the full three.

In the ready layouts that means the “INTELLIGENCE” (14th of 34) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (37th of 59) band of By complexity.

Pugna is played in two positions — soft support (4) and hard support (5) — like 38 other heroes with two scores of 0.5 or more; the main one is soft support. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0.02 · mid 0.23 · offlane 0.16 · soft support 1 · hard support 0.84 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Pugna in the “4 · SUPPORT” and “5 · HARD SUPPORT” rows and nowhere else.

Where the scores come from: in 438 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Pugna went safe lane 34% of the time, mid 21% and offlane 45%. Median gold per minute is 380 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.79 by the site's formula; experience per minute is 560.

Pugna is not in Classic: positions 1–5, which holds the 18 most popular heroes per position, but each row fits 20 portraits — add Pugna to the “4 · SUPPORT” row with “+ Hero” and the portraits keep their size.

Other ready grids with Pugna: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 33rd of 44.

With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Pugna, then Lion, Grimstroke and Shadow Demon, because all three share the same main position (soft support), the same attribute and ranged attack.

Then it is “Download grid” and hero_grid_config.json into Steam\userdata\<number>\570\remote\cfg while Dota is closed; load your current file in the “Your grid is ready” window and your old grids stay (install guide).

Pugna has 177,575 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026, Herald to Divine — 90th of 127 by games played — and a 50.5% win rate, 48th of 127.

The higher the rank, the better: 49.1% at Herald–Crusader, 51.9% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Pugna more than usual at Herald (+21%) and less at Divine (−9%).

Pugna in the snapshot's pro matches: 2 picks, 1 win, 0 bans. Turbo: 94,947 games at 49.0%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Pugna yet, but any art or screenshot of the hero turns into dots in Picture to dots. Among the heroes with skins that are also played as soft support, the closest to Pugna are Skywrath Mage, Rubick and Techies — their dot drawings are ready for a soft support grid.