How Lone Druid and Shadow Shaman perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lone Druid and Shadow Shaman win 46.53% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 548 matches.
Pushing down a tower feels inevitable when these two are together. Shadow Shaman can lock down any single defender for an eternity with Hex and Shackles, completely taking them out of the fight. During that time, his Mass Serpent Ward and Lone Druid's Spirit Bear are free to unload on the objective. There's so much combined damage being thrown at the building that it melts before the disable even ends, making early and mid-game defenses feel hopeless.
This duo creates a very clear and powerful game plan from the moment Shadow Shaman gets his ultimate. They group up, find a pickoff using the chain of disables, and then immediately convert that into an objective. The opponents are constantly on the back foot, forced to react to the pressure Lone Druid creates. If they commit too many heroes to stop a push, the bear can simply be recalled and the team can rotate elsewhere. It forces the enemy into bad positions where any mistake costs them a major piece of the map.
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 | 48.92% | 231 |
| Crusader & Archon | 47.38% | 591 |
| Legend & Ancient | 48.71% | 425 |
| Divine & Immortal | 48.39% | 155 |
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 | 46.53% | ▼ -4.3pp | 548 |
| 7.41d | 50.81% | ▼ -0.9pp | 45,220 |
| 7.41c | 51.73% | ▼ -3.0pp | 37,468 |
| 7.41b | 54.75% | — | 61,808 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.