How Anti-Mage and Shadow Demon perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Anti-Mage and Shadow Demon win 42.34% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 359 matches.
Trying to save Anti-Mage with Disruption is a disaster waiting to happen. If his Counterspell is active, he will reflect the spell, banishing Shadow Demon instead and leaving himself vulnerable. This one interaction highlights the core problem: their kits actively work against each other. Shadow Demon wants to set up kills with spells like Soul Catcher in the early game, but Anti-Mage has no burst damage to follow up with and would rather be farming somewhere else on the map. Their game plans are completely out of sync.
This disconnect defines the whole match. While Shadow Demon tries to create pressure and make plays in the mid-game, Anti-Mage is focused on hitting his item timings and avoiding fights. This leaves their team playing four-on-five, struggling to defend towers against aggression. Even if the game goes late, Shadow Demon offers very little to enable a farmed Anti-Mage compared to supports who provide reliable stuns or damage amplification that better suits a physical carry. The risk of a misplaced Disruption is always present, making teamfights unnecessarily chaotic.
How this pairing performs across skill brackets — the duo's team win rate 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 | Team win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 40.72% | 167 |
| Crusader & Archon | 42.82% | 439 |
| Legend & Ancient | 43.69% | 325 |
| Divine & Immortal | 41.58% | 101 |
This duo's team win rate in each recent balance patch — whether the pairing is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Team win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 42.34% | ▼ -2.3pp | 359 |
| 7.41d | 44.66% | ▲ +0.9pp | 37,630 |
| 7.41c | 43.76% | ▼ -0.4pp | 17,857 |
| 7.41b | 44.19% | — | 20,614 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.