Dota 2 - Zeus Build Guide

BIO
Lord of Heaven, father of gods, Zeus treats all the Heroes as if they are his rambunctious, rebellious children. After being caught unnumbered times in the midst of trysts with countless mortal women, his divine wife finally gave him an ultimatum: 'If you love mortals so much, go and become one. If you can prove yourself faithful, then return to me as my immortal husband. Otherwise, go and die among your creatures.' Zeus found her logic (and her magic) irrefutable, and agreed to her plan. He has been on his best behavior ever since, being somewhat fonder of immortality than he is of mortals. But to prove himself worthy of his eternal spouse, he must continue to pursue victory on the field of battle.

ROLE
Ranged - Nuker - Support

STATS

LEVEL	1	15	25
HIT POINTS	511	990	1,712	SIGHT RANGE	1800 / 800
MANA	260	751	1,362	ATTACK RANGE	350
DAMAGE	41-49	79-87	126-134	MISSILE SPEED	1100
ARMOR	2	4	8

ABILITIES

1. Arc Lightning

Hurls a bolt of lightning that leaps through nearby enemy units.

MANA COST: 65 / 70 / 75 / 80	COOLDOWN: 1.75
ABILITY: TARGET UNIT	AFFECTS: ENEMY HEROES
DAMAGE: MAGICAL	DAMAGE: 85 / 100 / 115 / 145
JUMPS: 5 / 7 / 9 / 15

Arc Lightning is Zeus' favorite spell to use against puny mortals.

U need this skill to farm creeps or harass enemies. This skill is spammable anytime you need. You need to spam this skill to rech a decent damage because its damage is relatively small.

2. Lightning Bolt

Summons a bolt of lightning to strike an enemy unit, causing damage and a mini-stun. Lightning Bolt also provides True Sight around the target in a radius of 900.

MANA COST: 75 / 95 / 115 / 135	COOLDOWN: 6.0
ABILITY: TARGET UNIT	AFFECTS: ENEMY HEROES
DAMAGE: MAGICAL	DAMAGE: 100 / 175 / 275 / 350

A shocking punishment for rebellious heathen.
This is your primary one-targetted nuke to harass and killing your enemy. the damage is so painful in early-mid game. You can kill or harass your enemies easily with this skill. If you get many kills in early game, your level and items will be better than your opponents, and you will likely to win the game.

3. Static Field

Zeus shocks all nearby enemy units whenever he casts a spell, causing damage proportional to their current health.

ABILITY: PASSIVE	DAMAGE: MAGICAL
RANGE: 1000 / 1000 / 1000 / 1000	HEALTH REDUCTION: 5% / 7% / 9% / 11%

When you cast a spell, all enemies in screen will receive a small amount of damage. Nice skill to help teams to reduce opponenets health.

4. Thundergod's Wrath

Strikes all enemy heroes with a bolt of lightning, no matter where they may be. Thundergod's Wrath also provides True Sight around each hero struck. If an enemy hero is invisible, it takes no damage, but the True Sight is still created at that hero's location. Upgradable by Aghanim's Scepter.

MANA COST: 225 / 325 / 450	COOLDOWN: 90.ffffff
ABILITY: NO TARGET	DAMAGE: MAGICAL
TRUE SIGHT RADIUS: 900 / 900 / 900	DURATION: 3 / 3 / 3 / 3
DAMAGE: 225 / 350 / 475	SCEPTER DAMAGE: 440 / 540 / 640

The Lord of Heaven smites all who oppose him, near or far.
Your ultimate. Will deal damages to all opponent wherever he is alive on the map. Very nice nukes. Have a chance to makse you got a rampage. Also will boost your assisst stats by a lots because you will participate in almost every kills happened. Very good if you buy refreser orb to make you can use this skill twice and increase your chance to got RAMPAGE. Very good to dominate a teamfight which is your team will have your opponennts Hp reduced by 30%-40% before the teamfight even started.

INTRODUCTION
Zeus is a decent nuker that attacks with magic damage. All your skills are magics. You have a very high magic damage as an INT hero. You can get rampage using your ultimate, what you need is just spam all your skills. Zeus have weakness, that is his attack range, you have 350 range that makes you difficult to lasthits creeps in lane

SKILLBUILD

Level 1: Lightning Bolt
Level 2: Arc Lightning
Level 3: Lightning Bolt
Level 4: Arc Lightning
Level 5: Lightning Bolt
Level 6: Thundergod's Wrath
Level 7: Lightning Bolt
Level 8: Arc Lightning
Level 9 : Arc Lightning
Level 10: Static Field
Level 11: Thundergod's Wrath
Level 12: Static Field
Level 13: Static Field
Level 14: Static Field
Level 15: Stats
Level 16: Thundergod's Wrath
Level 17-25: Stats

Why Lightning Bolt maxed first? This is your main nukes, it's damage is so high 350, in early game, with just 3-4 times casted on squishy INT/AGi heroes it will 100% kill him.
Why Arc Lightning before Static Field? You need to combo Lightning Bolt and Acr Lightning to make your nukes more stronger.

STRATEGY
Early Game
If you are a support, you need to help your friends get enough farms by not killing creeps, deny is ok. But if there is no rule, you also can farm too. Because of your low range, it will be difficult to last hits, you must last hit carefully. You also should harass opponent using your Lightning bolt and Arc Lightning. In early game, your skills are very painful.

Mid Game
Here, I assume that you are already have your ultimate Thundergod's Wrath. In this stage of the game, your part is to spam your skills in any teamfights you participate. You need to spam Lightning Bolt to the most squishy enemy. You also need to spam Arc Lightning. Use your ultimate in every teamfights to deal damages to every enemy on the map. If you feel its necessary, you can use your ultimate to kill anyone who is too far away from your teams range to chase him. Maybe here, you should buy supportive items like eul or Schyte of Vyse.

Late Game
Here your part is to spam all your skills in every teamfights. As an INT hero, you usually already have some supportive items here, like Schyte of Vyse or Eul's Scepter, you need to use that items too to support your team. And if you decide to go Refresher, it is a very good choice, because you will have 2 times ultimate, the damage will be so nice: 475 x 2 without Aghanim's Scepter and 640 x 2 with Aghanim's Scepter. Youth your ultimate alone, all your enemy's will be at half HP in seconds. You also can get RAMPAGE with this this skill if you're lucky enough.

ITEM BUILD
1. Arcane Boots
Total cost: 1450
Recipe: Boots of Speed + Energy Booster

Active: Replenish Mana - Restores mana in an area around the hero. Flat movement speed bonuses from multiple pairs of boots do not stack. + 60 Movement Speed + 250 Mana MANA RESTORED: 135 Mana Needed: 25    Cooldown: 55

Why Arcane Boots? You have spammable skills, so you need more mana, with this item, your mana will be fulfilled. And also to replenish mana of the team.

2. Force Staff
Total cost: 2350
Recipe: Staff of Wizardy + Ring of Regen + Recipe

Active: Force - Pushes any target unit 600 units in the direction it is facing. Double click to self-cast. + 10 Intelligence    + 3 HP Regeneration Manacost: 25    Cooldown: 20

Why Force Staff? ForceStaff is useful on many purposes, you can initiate a teamfight with ForceStaff, or you can save somebody, or you can save yourself.

3.  Schyte of Vyse
Total cost: 5675
Recipe: Mystic Staff + Ultimate Orb + Void Stone

Active: Hex - Turns a target unit into a harmless critter for 3.5 seconds. Destroys illusions. + 10 Strength   + 10 Agility  + 35 Intelligence + 150% Mana Regeneration Manacost: 100   Cooldown: 35

Why Schyte of Vyse? Very good item to initiate a teamfight. or to defend against somebody.

4. Aghanim's Scepter
Total cost:: 4200
Recipe: Point Booster, Ogre Axe, Staff of Wizardy, Blade of Alacrity

Passive: Ultimate Upgrade - Upgrades the ultimates of certain heroes. + 10 All Attributes   + 200 Health   + 150 Mana

Why Aghanim's Scepter?
Will increase your ultimate's damage, nice item.

5. Refresher Orb
Total cost:  5300
Recipe: Oblivion Staff, Preserverance, Recipe

Active: Reset Cooldowns - Resets the cooldowns of all your items and abilities. + 5 HP Regeneration + 200% Mana Regeneration    + 40 Damage    + 6 Intelligence Manacost: 375     Cooldown: 160

Why Refresher Orb?
Refresher Orb is a very important item for you to deal maximum damage for every enemy in the map. You must have this I say.

Or you can choose to straigh build into Refresher after you get Arcane Boots, this build is focused on 2x your ultimate.

Good Allies

1. Invoker

Invoker have high Aoe Damages to beat up all of the opponents. And you can cmbo your skills with him so the damage output will be thousands.

2. Venomancer

His ultimate will makes all opponents in a very low HP, and your skill will last hits them all to makes you got RAMPAGE.

Bad Enemies

1. Pipe of Insight

If youe enemy team already finished this items, you will have your magic damage reduced and this is very harmful for you.