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Mason reaches main pool after 6 months of being stuck in the smurf pool.

He is currently sitting at (7000+ MMR) with 2800+ matches (most out of any hero). So he is both the highest pick rate and win rate (except for a few heroes with very small sample size). I have only seen that a couple times in the many years I’ve been following Dota.

For those of us who have had the misfortune of playing against Zeus this patch, it’s pretty miserable. Getting anywhere near a lane with him in it is almost laughable… he presses 2 buttons and you’re just half HP. Not to mention that even if you catch him he has a reasonably strong escape skill that also slows you to a crawl.

It’s pretty easy to see that he is the poster child of power creep in Dota. He does almost everything that a core hero in Dota can do: lane harass, nuke, deward, split push, manfight, escape with slow, global vision, global TP cancel, area denial, and he’s not even that bad at pushing towers with manta.

How should he be balanced?