Tusk — Dota 2 7.41 Counters, Synergies & Win Rate
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 counters & matchups
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.
Strong against
| Hero | Win Rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
 Shadow Demon | 53.96% | 11,326 |
 Chen | 53.82% | 2,696 |
 Timbersaw | 53.62% | 15,395 |
 Nature's Prophet | 53.53% | 27,093 |
 Mars | 53.23% | 34,669 |
 Gyrocopter | 53.11% | 16,864 |
 Tinker | 53.00% | 15,869 |
 Tiny | 52.23% | 33,432 |
Struggles against
| Hero | Win Rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
 Spectre | 42.66% | 30,247 |
 Wraith King | 43.51% | 47,107 |
 Dawnbreaker | 43.80% | 27,415 |
 Phoenix | 43.90% | 27,799 |
 Necrophos | 44.49% | 50,404 |
 Techies | 44.56% | 42,364 |
 Underlord | 44.87% | 20,220 |
 Riki | 45.11% | 18,292 |
Tusk synergies
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.
Best teammates
| Hero | Win Rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
 Lone Druid | 53.14% | 9,134 |
| Dawnbreaker | 52.48% | 23,043 |
 Keeper of the Light | 52.16% | 15,788 |
| Spectre | 51.98% | 26,560 |
 Tidehunter | 51.95% | 40,107 |
| Phoenix | 51.92% | 20,515 |
| Wraith King | 51.85% | 39,987 |
 Visage | 51.47% | 7,363 |