Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Tusk wins the Shadow Demon vs Tusk matchup: Tusk beats Shadow Demon in 53.08% of 211 ranked matches.
Getting caught out by Tusk feels hopeless on this hero. Shadow Demon’s whole game plan relies on controlling fights from a safe distance, but Snowball lets Tusk and his team completely ignore that spacing and land right on top of him. Once Tusk is in melee range, Shadow Demon is too fragile to survive the stuns and burst damage from Walrus Punch. Trying to save an initiated ally with Disruption is also risky; a good Tusk will often ignore the disrupted target and simply kill the defenseless Shadow Demon instead. He consistently breaks the careful positioning that Shadow Demon needs to be effective, leaving him with few good options in a teamfight.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Shadow Demon's win rate against Tusk 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 | Shadow Demon win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 52.73% | 165 |
| Legend & Ancient | 47.70% | 239 |
| Divine & Immortal | 45.90% | 122 |
Shadow Demon's win rate against Tusk in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Shadow Demon win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 46.92% | ▼ -0.0pp | 211 |
| 7.41d | 46.94% | ▲ +1.7pp | 17,659 |
| 7.41c | 45.28% | ▼ -0.2pp | 9,386 |
| 7.41b | 45.46% | — | 12,357 |
Move this data into a draft
Shadow Demon starts on Radiant and Tusk on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 11, 2026.