How Razor and Zeus perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Razor and Zeus win 50.08% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 11,275 matches.
Trying to focus down a single hero often brings Razor and Zeus together. Razor's Static Link forces an enemy to either fight with reduced damage or run away, holding them in a bad spot. This creates a clear target for Zeus to unload his spells on from a safe distance. The slow from Razor's Plasma Field can also make it easier for Zeus to land his own abilities, and a global Thundergod's Wrath can secure a kill that Razor's chase might not have been enough to finish on its own. The combination provides a good mix of sustained and burst magic damage against one specific target.
In practice, this pairing is very timing-dependent. They don't offer much for each other during the laning stage, as both heroes are usually farming separate areas of the map. The synergy really shows up in the mid-game, when they can start moving together to pick off isolated heroes. However, the combo's effectiveness drops off if the enemy team has good saves, ways to break Razor's link, or multiple Black King Bars. Both heroes can struggle against lineups that are good at splitting up and avoiding those direct mid-game confrontations.
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 | 46.82% | 754 |
| Crusader & Archon | 50.38% | 1,824 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.96% | 1,425 |
| Divine & Immortal | 46.26% | 441 |
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 | 50.08% | ▼ -1.7pp | 11,275 |
| 7.41d | 51.78% | ▲ +1.7pp | 152,007 |
| 7.41c | 50.11% | ▲ +0.1pp | 55,915 |
| 7.41b | 49.99% | — | 58,334 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.