How Necrophos and Zeus perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Necrophos and Zeus win 50.19% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 28,177 matches.
Playing against this pair feels like your health bar is constantly draining from every direction. Zeus can soften up the entire enemy team from anywhere on the map with Thundergod's Wrath, and his constant spell spam wears down anyone trying to hold a position. This creates the perfect setup for Necrophos, who is always looking for a target to fall into Reaper's Scythe range. The combination is brutally efficient: global damage puts a key hero into the kill threshold, and Necrophos secures their death, often from a screen away.
The pressure starts in the laning stage and ramps up significantly once both heroes have their ultimates. Any teamfight can instantly turn into a five-versus-four scenario. To beat this, you have to commit hard and fast, bursting one of them down before their sustained damage takes its toll. The Zeus and Necrophos side wants the opposite: to poke from a safe distance, kite enemies through Heartstopper Aura, and wait for that one moment where their ultimates can delete a core hero and break the fight wide open.
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 | 54.64% | 1,541 |
| Crusader & Archon | 53.07% | 4,498 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.65% | 4,144 |
| Divine & Immortal | 47.66% | 1,347 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 50.19% | ▼ -3.2pp | 28,177 |
| 7.41d | 53.36% | ▲ +0.2pp | 410,853 |
| 7.41c | 53.13% | ▲ +0.4pp | 163,123 |
| 7.41b | 52.76% | — | 125,352 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.