How Snapfire and Zeus perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Snapfire and Zeus win 47.75% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 21,642 matches.
Holding an enemy down for a Zeus burst is the main idea here. Snapfire offers a stun with her Firesnap Cookie or a persistent slow with Mortimer Kisses, creating a clear window for Zeus to unload all his spells on one target. This works best against single, isolated heroes who can be controlled and quickly deleted from the fight. The directness of the combo is its strength; Snapfire locks them down, and Zeus provides the finishing magical damage from a relatively safe distance.
Across the game, this duo hunts for pickoffs. Their goal is to find an overextended support or core and delete them before a fight begins. The weakness is that both Snapfire and Zeus are quite fragile and lack mobility. If an enemy team with good initiation gets the jump on them, they often die before they can execute their combo. The game then becomes about which team is better at controlling vision and initiating, as this pair can be both the hunter and the hunted.
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 | 48.67% | 976 |
| Crusader & Archon | 50.14% | 3,275 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.90% | 3,847 |
| Divine & Immortal | 46.63% | 1,452 |
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 | 47.75% | ▼ -5.6pp | 21,642 |
| 7.41d | 53.38% | ▲ +1.9pp | 405,127 |
| 7.41c | 51.51% | ▲ +3.8pp | 111,551 |
| 7.41b | 47.73% | — | 43,129 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.