How Doom and Shadow Shaman perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Doom and Shadow Shaman win 47.51% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 9,921 matches.
The shared goal is to lock down one single hero. Doom's ultimate strips an enemy of their spells and items, and Shadow Shaman can follow up with Hex and Shackles to hold them completely still. This guarantees the target is neutralized, unable to act or be saved by their team’s items. In theory, this is a free kill whenever both heroes have their abilities ready. The combination dedicates an enormous amount of single-target control to one unfortunate enemy, which feels very powerful when it connects.
The issue is that this is frequently an excessive amount of control for one kill. Committing both Doom's ultimate and Shadow Shaman's full spell rotation to a single target can leave your own team exposed to the rest of the enemy lineup. Both heroes also need to be in the right place at the right time, often with key items like Blink Daggers to initiate. If the enemy team is grouped up or can burst one of you down during the attempt, the entire play can backfire badly, making it a high-risk gank.
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 | 45.68% | 521 |
| Crusader & Archon | 44.78% | 1,505 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.28% | 1,396 |
| Divine & Immortal | 45.92% | 466 |
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 | 47.51% | ▼ -0.5pp | 9,921 |
| 7.41d | 48.02% | ▲ +0.1pp | 127,506 |
| 7.41c | 47.93% | ▲ +0.5pp | 50,757 |
| 7.41b | 47.42% | — | 61,669 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.