Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Pugna wins the Pugna vs Shadow Demon matchup: Pugna beats Shadow Demon in 54.55% of 154 ranked matches.
Trying to be effective as Shadow Demon becomes a painful exercise against Pugna. His Nether Ward makes every one of your spell casts a serious risk, zapping your health and mana for using Shadow Poison or saving an ally with Disruption. Your attempts to set up kills get punished before they even begin. Meanwhile, Pugna applies constant pressure with Nether Blast, forcing fights and pushing towers while you're too low on resources to contest. If you get caught, his Decrepify makes you incredibly vulnerable to magic burst, and Shadow Demon has few ways to survive that initial onslaught. The core of your kit is simply turned against you.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Pugna'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 | Pugna win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 51.82% | 137 |
| Legend & Ancient | 56.59% | 129 |
Pugna'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 | Pugna win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 54.55% | ▼ -0.9pp | 154 |
| 7.41d | 55.47% | ▼ -0.6pp | 13,354 |
| 7.41c | 56.06% | ▲ +0.3pp | 7,173 |
| 7.41b | 55.72% | — | 8,865 |
Move this data into a draft
Pugna 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.