How Death Prophet and Shadow Demon perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41f, from ranked matches.
As teammates
Together 45.44%
Win rate when Death Prophet and Shadow Demon are on the same team, over 3,858 ranked matches (7.41f).
In Dota 2 7.41f, Death Prophet and Shadow Demon win 45.44% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,858 matches.
Why this works
Casting Exorcism on a key target is Death Prophet's main plan in a teamfight. The problem is that Shadow Demon's go-to setup spell, Disruption, actively works against it. Banishing an enemy for a few seconds might seem helpful, but it makes them immune to the Exorcism ghosts, wasting a huge chunk of Death Prophet's ultimate damage. While Soul Catcher can amplify the damage when the target returns, this core timing conflict is too severe. The two heroes fundamentally want to control the same target in opposite ways, leading to messy fights where their most important spells get in each other's way.
Death Prophet + Shadow Demon by rank
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
Legend & Ancient
43.70%
119
Death Prophet + Shadow Demon across patches
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
7.41f
45.44%
▲ +0.9pp
3,858
7.41e
44.50%
▲ +1.5pp
12,168
7.41d
43.03%
▲ +0.2pp
13,929
7.41c
42.87%
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6,870
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