How Winter Wyvern and Zeus perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Winter Wyvern and Zeus win 48.12% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 6,114 matches.
Setting up a fight with Winter's Curse creates a mixed opportunity. The main target of the ultimate is immune to Zeus's spells, but their allies are forced to clump up, making them great targets for Chain Lightning. Winter Wyvern can also add her own damage with Splinter Blast during the chaos. The result is a combo that's less about bursting a single hero and more about punishing the enemy team for being grouped near the Cursed target. It can be effective, but it's not a straightforward setup.
The defensive side of this pairing is more reliable. Cold Embrace is a solid tool for saving a focused Zeus from physical attackers, buying him time to get more spells off. Offensively, the combination can feel clumsy. Winter Wyvern locks down a priority hero, but doing so prevents Zeus from finishing that target himself. Their success hinges entirely on damaging the secondary victims forced to attack their ally, which makes the outcome of any given teamfight unpredictable.
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 | 50.25% | 398 |
| Crusader & Archon | 48.66% | 933 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.93% | 754 |
| Divine & Immortal | 48.75% | 361 |
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 | 48.12% | ▼ -1.2pp | 6,114 |
| 7.41d | 49.36% | ▼ -0.9pp | 91,890 |
| 7.41c | 50.30% | ▲ +0.5pp | 39,867 |
| 7.41b | 49.83% | — | 32,820 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.