How Riki and Shadow Demon perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Riki and Shadow Demon win 42.00% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 150 matches.
Saving a target with Disruption for a Riki to kill seems like a good idea, but it often works against what both heroes want to do. Riki's greatest strength is the element of surprise and choosing his own moment to strike. When he has to wait for a Disruption to end, it telegraphs his position and turns him into a predictable attacker waiting on a timer. The enemy team knows where he is and can prepare a response. Likewise, Shadow Demon's kit doesn't offer the kind of front-line chaos or hard lockdown that Riki needs to get multiple backstabs off safely. Their timings simply don't align.
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 | 48.19% | 166 |
| Legend & Ancient | 47.65% | 149 |
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 | 42.00% | ▼ -5.8pp | 150 |
| 7.41d | 47.84% | ▼ -0.1pp | 16,533 |
| 7.41c | 47.96% | ▲ +0.4pp | 8,482 |
| 7.41b | 47.60% | — | 9,884 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.