How Sand King and Shadow Demon perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Sand King and Shadow Demon win 40.15% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 137 matches.
Saving a Sand King with Disruption while he channels Epicenter will cancel the ultimate entirely, wasting a game-winning spell. This one interaction shows the larger problem: their kits work against each other. Shadow Demon is great at isolating one hero for a single-target burst, using Disruption to set up his poisons and Soul Catcher. Sand King, however, wants to jump into the whole enemy team with Burrowstrike and deal massive area damage. Shadow Demon's main setup doesn't help Sand King hit more targets, and his primary save is a direct liability for Sand King's most important spell. They end up fighting on different terms.
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 | 42.28% | 123 |
| Legend & Ancient | 47.79% | 113 |
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 | 40.15% | ▼ -4.3pp | 137 |
| 7.41d | 44.44% | ▲ +2.6pp | 13,127 |
| 7.41c | 41.86% | ▼ -3.3pp | 7,116 |
| 7.41b | 45.12% | — | 12,020 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.