Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41f win rate from ranked matches.
Favored
Drow Ranger 51.16%
Drow Ranger51.16%
Shadow Demon48.84%
Over 9,777 ranked matches (7.41f).
In Dota 2 7.41f, Drow Ranger wins the Drow Ranger vs Shadow Demon matchup: Drow Ranger beats Shadow Demon in 51.16% of 9,777 ranked matches.
How this matchup plays
Thinking Shadow Demon has the upper hand here is a common trap. While Disruption can save a teammate from her arrows for a moment, the real story of the matchup is Gust. Drow Ranger can silence Shadow Demon from a safe distance, preventing him from casting any of his crucial spells. Without access to his kit, he’s a very slow and fragile hero who can’t escape Frost Arrows and dies quickly. Shadow Demon needs to get close to a fight to contribute, but getting close to Drow gives her the perfect opening to shut him down before he can do anything meaningful.
Drow Ranger vs Shadow Demon by rank
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Drow Ranger'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
Drow Ranger win rate
Matches
Herald & Guardian
56.05%
157
Crusader & Archon
48.77%
324
Legend & Ancient
49.10%
334
Drow Ranger vs Shadow Demon across patches
Drow Ranger'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
Drow Ranger win rate
Change
Matches
7.41f
51.16%
▲ +0.4pp
9,777
7.41e
50.77%
▼ -4.9pp
44,710
7.41d
55.71%
▲ +0.9pp
58,443
7.41c
54.78%
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22,300
Move this data into a draft
Put Drow Ranger against Shadow Demon
Drow Ranger 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.