Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Grimstroke wins the Grimstroke vs Shadow Demon matchup: Grimstroke beats Shadow Demon in 54.97% of 2,134 ranked matches.
Believing that Disruption breaking Soulbind makes this an easy matchup for Shadow Demon is a common mistake. It’s a good save, but it forces Shadow Demon to play reactively and hold a key spell for a single threat. A smart Grimstroke will often ignore the cores and simply use Soulbind on Shadow Demon directly. Once tethered, the squishy hero can’t save himself and rarely survives the focused damage that hits both him and his partner. Furthermore, Grimstroke’s large area-of-effect spells like Ink Swell are incredibly difficult for a slow, fragile hero like Shadow Demon to dodge. He becomes the primary target and lacks the tools to deal with Grimstroke's aggressive initiation.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Grimstroke'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 | Grimstroke win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 50.00% | 256 |
| Legend & Ancient | 51.87% | 320 |
| Divine & Immortal | 55.30% | 132 |
Grimstroke'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 | Grimstroke win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 54.97% | ▲ +0.3pp | 2,134 |
| 7.41d | 54.68% | ▲ +0.6pp | 23,460 |
| 7.41c | 54.03% | ▲ +1.8pp | 10,048 |
| 7.41b | 52.19% | — | 11,487 |
Move this data into a draft
Grimstroke 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 17, 2026.