
Also known as: Ymir
Tusk (Ymir) in Dota 2 7.41: win rate, pick rate, the heroes Tusk counters and struggles against, and its best teammates — from recent ranked matches by Batru's AI win-prediction pipeline.
Tusk is an aggressive ganker whose Snowball rolls allies into a fight, Ice Shards wall off escapes, and Walrus Punch launches a target into the air for a crit. He's strong into immobile heroes his combo catches: Shadow Demon (54.0%), Chen (53.8%) and Timbersaw (53.6%) get snowballed and punched. Tusk is countered by tanks and scalers a single pick can't finish: Spectre (42.7%), Wraith King (43.5%) and Dawnbreaker (43.8%) out-tank/scale, while Phoenix (43.9%) out-fights. Draft tip: Tusk is a strong early-gank initiator into squishy drafts; he's weaker into tanky hard-carries and sustain line-ups that survive his Snowball-Punch combo.
| Hero | Win Rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| 53.96% | 11,326 | |
| 53.82% | 2,696 | |
| 53.62% | 15,395 | |
| 53.53% | 27,093 | |
| 53.23% | 34,669 | |
| 53.11% | 16,864 | |
| 53.00% | 15,869 | |
| 52.23% | 33,432 |
| Hero | Win Rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| 42.66% | 30,247 | |
| 43.51% | 47,107 | |
| 43.80% | 27,415 | |
| 43.90% | 27,799 | |
| 44.49% | 50,404 | |
| 44.56% | 42,364 | |
| 44.87% | 20,220 | |
| 45.11% | 18,292 |
Tusk's Snowball delivers him and an ally onto a target, and Walrus Punch sets up a kill — he's a roaming gank-enabler who loves an early-aggression partner. He pairs best with push and dive cores: Lone Druid (53.1%) and Keeper of the Light (52.2%) snowball off his early pickoffs, while Dawnbreaker (52.5%) provides the global engage to compound his ganks. Give Tusk an aggressive partner and his Snowball roams turn the early game into a kill-fest.
| Hero | Win Rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| 53.14% | 9,134 | |
| 52.48% | 23,043 | |
| 52.16% | 15,788 | |
| 51.98% | 26,560 | |
| 51.95% | 40,107 | |
| 51.92% | 20,515 | |
| 51.85% | 39,987 | |
| 51.47% | 7,363 |