Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41f win rate from ranked matches.
Favored
Ancient Apparition 56.61%
Ancient Apparition56.61%
Shadow Demon43.39%
Over 6,895 ranked matches (7.41f).
In Dota 2 7.41f, Ancient Apparition wins the Ancient Apparition vs Shadow Demon matchup: Ancient Apparition beats Shadow Demon in 56.61% of 6,895 ranked matches.
How this matchup plays
Hiding an ally with Disruption seems like a good answer to Ice Blast, but the reality is harsh. The debuff from Ancient Apparition's ultimate lasts through the entire banish, meaning the target emerges still unable to heal and ready to shatter. This turns Shadow Demon's best defensive tool into a simple delay of the inevitable. The clash extends beyond saves; AA's ultimate punishes the exact kind of sustained fights that SD's poisons and purges create. Any attempt to heal through that damage-over-time gets completely negated, which is also why the two heroes often fail to find their footing on the same side.
Ancient Apparition vs Shadow Demon by rank
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Ancient Apparition's win rate against Shadow Demon 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
Ancient Apparition win rate
Matches
Crusader & Archon
56.98%
179
Legend & Ancient
59.24%
211
Ancient Apparition vs Shadow Demon across patches
Ancient Apparition's win rate against Shadow Demon in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
Patch
Ancient Apparition win rate
Change
Matches
7.41f
56.61%
▲ +1.3pp
6,895
7.41e
55.28%
▲ +0.3pp
23,320
7.41d
54.93%
▲ +0.9pp
23,610
7.41c
54.02%
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9,568
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Put Ancient Apparition against Shadow Demon
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