How Bounty Hunter and Shadow Demon perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Bounty Hunter and Shadow Demon win 39.67% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 121 matches.
Putting a Track on a Disrupted target seems like an easy way to secure a kill, but the execution is clumsy. Bounty Hunter wants to break invisibility for an immediate burst, but Shadow Demon’s setup makes the target invulnerable for its duration. This pause often backfires, giving the enemy team time to position for a counter-gank or allowing the target to use a defensive item the moment they're free. Both heroes are also quite fragile and lack strong lane presence. Without a core who can enable them early, Bounty Hunter and Shadow Demon struggle to create the pickoffs they need to get ahead, leading to a weak mid-game with two under-farmed heroes.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 42.73% | 110 |
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 | 39.67% | ▼ -5.5pp | 121 |
| 7.41d | 45.18% | ▲ +1.8pp | 10,735 |
| 7.41c | 43.40% | ▲ +0.4pp | 5,276 |
| 7.41b | 42.99% | — | 6,016 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.