You are there to quickly burst damage down one enemy and ensure a kill for your team. Lane Ganker means leaving your lane (mid) and take advantage of the enemies already partially damaged and/or subject for disables offered by team mates. Take "nuker" as for beeing able to focus high amount of damage on one or more targets during a short amount of time in teamfights. His abilities alone will cover this role, all you need to take care of is mana pool. Mid and late game, there are a majority of items that reduce his potency pipe, bracers, treads, heart, drums, urn, magic wand, (early when you lack space and want some stats in a slot), even a vanguard if they have a lot of physical attack outside of zeus, or if you're a carry or str that could rely on the regen early.O Nuker - Native. That means you can get a magic stick and counter his viability pretty hard. He relies on chain llightning for last hitting because his range and damage are terrible. Zeus lacks mobility, which makes him an easy gank early. That will make you unkillable by him, and he will just become an easy kill in team fights. That helps more than you know.ĭepending on the rest of zeus' lineup, you will probably invest in a heart later if you aren't supporting. Also, GET A MEK! Go to a team fight, let him pop his burst with ulti, and heal your team. (If you're warding properly and all that, in a good game, you'll often have to resort to bracers because you just dont have the money to do much else and they offer some hp). Also a couple strength bracers never hurts a support. When zeus dies early he quickly diminishes in usefulness. Buy a smoke, go around after a few minutes and your lane seems somewhat safe, and get your mid a kill on the zeus. If you're a support, you have to be proactive in helping kill zeus mid a coulple times in your rotation.
You will be building a bkb very soon anyways against a lineup with Zeus as a key player.That gives what you need in the team fights later. Possibly build a magic wand for some stats.
If you're an agility carry that needs farming items, simply make sure you dont get phase boots, or boots other than treads if you can help it. Then your team should be having someone else working on the pipe anyways, to add some benefit later.
If you are the carry for your team, invest in a stat item of some sort if you aren't agility. Pipe will give you passive magic resistence, and also give your team more survivability against him. If Zeus is the other team's mid hero, then magic damage is going to be their focus for quite a while. If you are any sort of strength initiator, you simply work towards a pipe. He is terrible at run control, so that helps a bit as well.Īs for countering him when you're in a different lane, and just have trouble with his ulti and nuke damage, it depends on who you're playing in how you go about it. There's other heroes that specifically beat him pretty badly but those are some big ones. Possibly 5 if you're last hitting isnt going well. Shadowfiend can begin pushing the tower in and rune controlling at about level 3-4. Puck can phase shift to dodge the chain lightning. QoP can dagger him and keep him off the lane before his nuke gets levled. If it's the mid lane, then you can also counter him with quite a few heroes that just outplay him. In the laning phase you counter zeus simply with a magic stick. Lol It's funny to see people flame "bad players" but not give any good advice. No hero should be able to take down half my HP when I'm nowhere near them. Now of course I know I'll get flamed for saying a hero's OP, but if he's not OP then how should I counter him? His ult it seems really needs nerfing. And the worst part is that means I can be going back to fountain with less than half my HP left and Zeus can shoot it off at a lucky time killing me in front of it or WHILE HEALING even if I had low enough. Later on in the game his ult took down half my HP. We ended up with a kind of fed Zeus, I would have had no problem staying in lane if it weren't for Sand King stunning me and then Zeus slapping me three times promptly killing me. I was just in a coop match with hard bots, Zeus and Sand King were bot and we were dire, I was Bounty Hunter and Pudge went with me bot. So anyone else think Zeus is a tad OP? Specificially the ult.