Dota 2: Hoodwink is the top pro pick with 29 picks on patch 7.41f

Hoodwink is the hero pros pick most right now. In about 60 recent pro games, teams chose her 29 times. The data comes from OpenDota and covers patch 7.41f, which came out on 2026-09-15 and changed 35 heroes and 18 items.

Three words matter here. A pick means a team chose the hero. A ban means a team blocked the hero, so nobody can play it. Win rate shows how many of its games the hero won.

Which hero do pros pick the most?

Hoodwink has 29 picks and a 48% win rate. Dark Willow is second with 25 picks and 40% wins, and Techies is third with 21 picks and 57% wins.

Hoodwink is also banned 19 times, so teams fight over her in both ways. Only Dark Willow and Nature's Prophet are picked often and banned often too, with 27 and 29 bans.

Witch Doctor, Nature's Prophet, Windranger, Brewmaster and Rubick follow with 16 or 17 picks each. Rubick is the odd one: 16 picks but only 1 ban.

29 picks

Hoodwink, the most picked hero

48 bans

Bounty Hunter, the most banned hero

63%

Windranger win rate in 16 games

19%

Ember Spirit win rate in 16 games

Which heroes do pros ban the most?

Bounty Hunter is banned 48 times, the most of any hero. Enigma has 40 bans, Lone Druid 31, Nature's Prophet 29 and Doom 28.

Bounty Hunter is also the most contested hero, with 53 picks and bans together. Teams chose him only 5 times, so most teams simply block him. Dark Willow has 52 and Enigma 48.

Which heroes win the most in pro games?

Windranger has the best win rate with 63% in 16 games. Techies and Earth Spirit both have 57%, in 21 and 14 games. These numbers only count heroes with at least 12 games.

The worst results are Ember Spirit with 19% in 16 games, Winter Wyvern with 25% in 12 games and Necrophos with 29% in 14 games. Teams keep picking Ember Spirit anyway, but he wins fewer than one game in five.

The sample is small, about 60 games, so these numbers can still change as more pro matches are played.