Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41f win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Lone Druid wins the Lone Druid vs Shadow Demon matchup: Lone Druid beats Shadow Demon in 54.64% of 3,880 ranked matches.
Picking Shadow Demon into a Lone Druid often feels like a drafting error from the start. So much of Shadow Demon's kit is designed to isolate and control a single hero, which is a fundamental problem when facing two dangerous units. Using Disruption to save an ally from the Spirit Bear is only a temporary fix, as the hero is still free to attack. Targeting the Spirit Bear itself with Disruption is a disaster, creating powerful illusions of the bear that turn on your team. Even a full-power Demonic Purge can only slow one of them, leaving the other free to run rampant. Shadow Demon is built to dismantle one hero, but Lone Druid always brings two.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Lone Druid'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 | Lone Druid win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Legend & Ancient | 44.19% | 129 |
Lone Druid'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 | Lone Druid win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41f | 54.64% | ▲ +2.1pp | 3,880 |
| 7.41e | 52.56% | ▼ -1.0pp | 13,737 |
| 7.41d | 53.54% | ▼ -2.1pp | 8,478 |
| 7.41c | 55.64% | — | 6,069 |
Move this data into a draft
Lone Druid 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 Oct 5, 2026.