How Death Prophet and Shadow Demon perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Death Prophet and Shadow Demon win 44.12% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 102 matches.
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.
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 | 41.53% | 118 |
| Legend & Ancient | 43.27% | 104 |
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 | 44.12% | ▲ +0.9pp | 102 |
| 7.41d | 43.26% | ▲ +0.4pp | 12,463 |
| 7.41c | 42.87% | ▼ -1.0pp | 6,870 |
| 7.41b | 43.83% | — | 8,715 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.