How Medusa and Zeus perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41f, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Medusa and Zeus win 48.68% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 17,277 matches.
Facing this pair often feels like a slow grind. Zeus can wear down your entire team from anywhere on the map, forcing you to take fights at a health disadvantage. When you do commit, you're faced with a Medusa who absorbs a huge amount of punishment with her Mana Shield. This creates a difficult choice: try to burn through Medusa first while Zeus unloads freely from the back, or dive him and risk getting caught by Stone Gaze and cleaned up by her arrows.
This dynamic allows Medusa to farm more safely and hit her timings. In teamfights, she provides the durable frontline that Zeus needs to get his full spell combo off. The enemy is forced to split its focus and itemize for both heavy magic and physical damage, which is always awkward. The success of this duo often hinges on surviving the early game, as neither hero offers much pressure before they have a few core items. If they get run over before the mid-game, their combined strength never comes online.
How this pairing performs across skill brackets — the duo's team win rate in recent ranked matches, split by average match rank. Ranks with too few recent matches are omitted. These rows use the last 30 days of quality-filtered ranked matches, all patches in that span combined — a wider window than the patch-scoped count above, so the per-rank match totals can exceed it.
| Rank | Team win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 40.56% | 180 |
| Crusader & Archon | 43.86% | 529 |
| Legend & Ancient | 44.53% | 539 |
This duo's team win rate in each recent balance patch — whether the pairing is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Team win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41f | 48.68% | ▼ -1.6pp | 17,277 |
| 7.41e | 50.26% | ▼ -1.9pp | 62,209 |
| 7.41d | 52.19% | ▲ +0.3pp | 104,453 |
| 7.41c | 51.88% | — | 45,740 |
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Data updated Oct 5, 2026.