
Also known as: Magnataur, Magnus
Magnus (Magnataur, Magnus) in Dota 2 7.41: win rate, pick rate, the heroes Magnus counters and struggles against, and its best teammates — from recent ranked matches by Batru's AI win-prediction pipeline.
Magnus is a premier initiator whose Reverse Polarity pulls and stuns an entire team into one spot, with Skewer and Empower for control and damage amp. He's strong into immobile, clumpable heroes: Timbersaw (56.5%), Tinker (54.9%) and Nature's Prophet (54.9%) get RP'd and deleted. Magnus is countered by BKB-reliant scalers and sustain who survive his combo: Wraith King (42.2%) and Spectre (42.4%) out-tank/scale, while Tidehunter (44.2%) and Phoenix (45.2%) bring competing AoE. Draft tip: Magnus is a game-winning teamfight initiator into grouped drafts; his RP is undercut by BKB, spread-out positioning, and tanky hard-carries.
| Hero | Win Rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| 56.49% | 19,802 | |
| 54.92% | 25,065 | |
| 54.85% | 42,751 | |
| 54.21% | 16,710 | |
| 53.57% | 24,027 | |
| 53.28% | 4,242 | |
| 52.99% | 51,438 | |
| 52.96% | 28,490 |
| Hero | Win Rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| 42.20% | 76,300 | |
| 42.42% | 49,223 | |
| 44.17% | 77,594 | |
| 45.21% | 41,891 | |
| 45.34% | 43,068 | |
| 45.42% | 26,369 | |
| 45.53% | 83,764 | |
| 45.68% | 25,597 |
Magnus's Reverse Polarity is the ultimate AoE setup — a whole team stunned and clumped — and Empower amplifies a cleave carry's damage. He pairs best with cleave and AoE-burst cores: Wraith King (53.6%) and Necrophos (52.4%) erase everything RP'd, while Phoenix (52.8%) Supernovas onto the clump. An Empower'd Sven or Lifestealer behind RP is lethal. Give Magnus a cleave carry and one Reverse Polarity wins the game outright.
| Hero | Win Rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| 53.65% | 53,152 | |
| 52.82% | 36,137 | |
| 52.44% | 57,852 | |
| 52.43% | 76,368 | |
| 52.36% | 43,052 | |
| 52.25% | 11,191 | |
| 52.20% | 34,333 | |
| 52.11% | 25,099 |