How Huskar and Shadow Demon perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Huskar and Shadow Demon win 36.04% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 111 matches.
Picking these two together often forces a choice between two conflicting game plans. Huskar wants to play on a knife's edge, diving deep with Life Break and staying at low health to maximize his damage. He needs support that enables this aggression. Shadow Demon's primary save, Disruption, works directly against this by taking Huskar out of the fight entirely. This pause resets the tempo, allows enemies to regroup, and wastes the momentum from Huskar's initial jump. While Soul Catcher can amplify damage, the core defensive ability actively disrupts what your carry is trying to accomplish, making for a clumsy and ineffective partnership.
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 | 46.79% | 109 |
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 | 36.04% | ▼ -3.3pp | 111 |
| 7.41d | 39.32% | ▼ -4.9pp | 13,553 |
| 7.41c | 44.24% | ▼ -0.1pp | 9,220 |
| 7.41b | 44.36% | — | 11,420 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.