How Outworld Destroyer and Zeus perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Outworld Destroyer and Zeus win 53.45% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 8,028 matches.
Seeing two high-damage intelligence cores together might seem like a natural pairing, but their kits don't overlap in a special way. Outworld Destroyer offers a setup with Astral Imprisonment for Zeus's Lightning Bolt, but this is a very basic interaction. Both heroes focus on dealing damage from the back line, but they do it independently. Zeus unloads huge bursts of magic damage on the whole enemy team at once, while Outworld Destroyer focuses on melting a single target with sustained pure damage from his orb. They don't enable each other beyond what any generic stun or save could provide.
During a game, this means they often operate on their own timers. They both need a lot of farm and experience to come online, so they're usually separated for the first part of the match. While Thundergod's Wrath can help clean up a kill for Outworld Destroyer, it does the same for anyone else on the map. The most they do for each other is that Astral Imprisonment can save a poorly positioned Zeus, but ultimately, they are two separate damage threats. Their success relies on the enemy not having the tools to deal with both of them, not on any powerful synergy between them.
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 | 51.37% | 364 |
| Crusader & Archon | 51.27% | 1,184 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.77% | 1,099 |
| Divine & Immortal | 55.08% | 374 |
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 | 53.45% | ▲ +1.4pp | 8,028 |
| 7.41d | 52.08% | ▲ +1.6pp | 86,262 |
| 7.41c | 50.45% | ▲ +0.5pp | 35,943 |
| 7.41b | 49.97% | — | 34,156 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.