In the aforementioned game where Zirc dominated as Puppet, I played Dark Lady and matched him for kills (i had 2 more deaths though).
I dunno if she's been mentioned in the thread before, but I feel she is a really powerful hero if played and itemed right. That and she was a completely fresh experience for me, who just joined this from DotA. My first build was steamboots, helm of black legion, whispering helm, and frostwolf skull. While frostwolf is good, I only got it by accident and probably won't get it on her again. I think the newerth equivalent of Diffusal Blade (idk what it is) along with stun hammer and lightning hammer would be a much better damage build as her active stun isn't very potent. If you could keep your target in one spot long enough to get 6 seconds of Dark Blades out on them, she could shred pretty much anything.