Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Chaos Knight wins the Chaos Knight vs Shadow Demon matchup: Chaos Knight beats Shadow Demon in 58.39% of 161 ranked matches.
Using Disruption on a charging Chaos Knight seems like the right play to save a core, but it often makes the situation worse. The two illusions Shadow Demon creates are strong, especially after Chaos Knight gets his own Phantasm illusions out. All those illusions get pulled in by Reality Rift, adding a ton of extra damage that can melt a support instantly. Shadow Demon ends up giving his opponent exactly what he wants: more bodies to overwhelm a target. After that initial mistake, Shadow Demon has no other defensive tools to deal with the chaos and is usually the next hero to fall.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Chaos Knight'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 | Chaos Knight win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 70.19% | 104 |
| Crusader & Archon | 57.69% | 156 |
| Legend & Ancient | 53.39% | 118 |
Chaos Knight'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 | Chaos Knight win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 58.39% | ▲ +0.3pp | 161 |
| 7.41d | 58.14% | ▲ +0.4pp | 14,206 |
| 7.41c | 57.76% | ▲ +2.1pp | 6,037 |
| 7.41b | 55.70% | — | 8,039 |
Move this data into a draft
Chaos Knight starts on Radiant and Shadow Demon on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 11, 2026.