Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41f win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Shadow Shaman wins the Lion vs Shadow Shaman matchup: Shadow Shaman beats Lion in 53.63% of 161,563 ranked matches.
Losing a hero on your team feels much worse when Shadow Shaman is the one who set up the kill. He immediately translates that pickoff into a threatened tower by dropping Mass Serpent Ward, creating relentless objective pressure that Lion cannot match. Lion is great at securing a kill with his own lockdown and Finger of Death, but afterwards he has no tools to damage buildings or apply map-wide pressure. Over the course of a game, the Shaman's ability to consistently convert ganks into objectives will shrink the map for Lion's team, leaving him with fewer safe places to find kills and stay relevant.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Lion's win rate against Shadow Shaman 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 | Lion win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 47.00% | 2,081 |
| Crusader & Archon | 45.50% | 6,706 |
| Legend & Ancient | 44.42% | 6,179 |
| Divine & Immortal | 48.16% | 1,225 |
Lion's win rate against Shadow Shaman in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Lion win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41f | 46.37% | ▼ -0.1pp | 161,563 |
| 7.41e | 46.43% | ▲ +0.1pp | 599,327 |
| 7.41d | 46.32% | ▼ -0.8pp | 627,659 |
| 7.41c | 47.11% | — | 309,649 |
Move this data into a draft
Lion starts on Radiant and Shadow Shaman on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Oct 4, 2026.