The god of thunder isn’t dead, but the end has come for Na’Vi’s in-game leader, known as he is by his mum as Danylo Teslenko, and to us as Zeus. In the wake of his retirement, many players and other folk associated with the Counter-Strike dynasty paid tribute to his achievements, calling him a legend of the game, and one of the all-time greats, and all the other platitudes you see on these occasions.

This is partly a factor of the strange convention where a person who would be derided yesterday is celebrated today for their passing, as Zeus’s CSGO career has been a rollercoaster, with all the ups and downs that implies. However, in the case of the likes of GeT_RiGhT and a few other legendary men, it’s also because they remember when the Ukrainian, now in his thirties, used to bring the Sturm und Drang to the server, as well as the noise.

Today, there are many opinions on the Na’Vi in-game leader, and not all of them positive, but the creation of Zeus came long ago, in CS 1.6 or even before. He certainly wasn’t the s1mple of that game, with Sweden’s finest GTR far and away the greatest in 1.6 and probably during the early years of Global Offensive, but for those people who remember Zeus as “the man who finally did something”, it may come as a surprise to see his numbers in 1.6.

Across 483 maps, Zeus had a 1.17 K/F and a 1.11 rating, with his time in game comparable to all but a handful of players. For context, GeT_RiGhT leads those rankings with a scarcely believable 1.41 across 653 maps, with cogu second and FalleN joint-third by rating with NEO, of VP fame. The list of 1.6 stats is a curious mix of names now committed to gaming history and young versions of those whou would become greats in Global Offensive, as the likes of Fnatic’s trace share the space with baby Xyp9x and his bear-man coach zonic.