How Monkey King and Shadow Demon perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Monkey King and Shadow Demon win 38.85% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 157 matches.
Fighting inside Wukong's Command becomes a real problem with these two heroes. Monkey King needs enemies to stay in his ultimate to take damage from him and his soldiers, but Shadow Demon's primary setup tool, Disruption, does the opposite. Banishing a key target makes them immune, effectively wasting a huge chunk of Monkey King's ultimate duration. The same conflict happens in lane; taking a hero out of the fight denies Monkey King the chance to build his Jingu Mastery stacks. While Soul Catcher can amplify damage, it doesn't solve the fundamental issue where Shadow Demon's most common spell actively works against what Monkey King needs to do to win a fight.
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 | 36.08% | 158 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.06% | 165 |
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 | 38.85% | ▼ -0.8pp | 157 |
| 7.41d | 39.63% | ▲ +0.1pp | 17,951 |
| 7.41c | 39.57% | ▼ -2.2pp | 11,606 |
| 7.41b | 41.77% | — | 17,370 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.