How Marci and Shadow Demon perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Marci and Shadow Demon win 45.87% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 109 matches.
Setting up a gank with Shadow Demon's Disruption seems straightforward, but the timing for Marci is often awkward. By the time the target comes out of the banish, they're usually already facing away, making a good Dispose throw difficult to land. The heroes simply want to operate at different speeds and ranges. Marci needs to dive in with Rebound and commit, while Shadow Demon prefers to stay back and control fights over a longer duration. This core conflict gets worse later. Saving Marci with Disruption completely wastes her Unleash ultimate, and she can't use a Disrupted ally to jump in. The pair's abilities tend to get in each other's way more than they help.
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 | 43.64% | 110 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.55% | 111 |
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 | 45.87% | ▲ +1.4pp | 109 |
| 7.41d | 44.51% | ▲ +0.6pp | 10,173 |
| 7.41c | 43.92% | ▼ -0.6pp | 5,562 |
| 7.41b | 44.56% | — | 7,430 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.