How Shadow Demon and Silencer perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Shadow Demon and Silencer win 39.60% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 202 matches.
Setting up a kill with Arcane Curse or Last Word becomes awkward when your partner is Shadow Demon. His Disruption is meant to isolate a target for a follow-up, but it often ends up saving that target from Silencer's damage over time or preventing them from casting a spell that would trigger Last Word. This conflict extends to their general game plan. Both heroes offer control, but they often work at cross-purposes. Silencer wants enemies to try and fail to cast spells, while Shadow Demon prefers to remove a hero from the fight entirely. This leaves gaps in their lockdown and can feel uncoordinated, lacking the hard initiation needed to secure important kills.
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 | 45.85% | 229 |
| Legend & Ancient | 42.47% | 186 |
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 | 39.60% | ▼ -5.1pp | 202 |
| 7.41d | 44.69% | ▼ -0.3pp | 21,040 |
| 7.41c | 45.03% | ▲ +0.4pp | 10,942 |
| 7.41b | 44.59% | — | 12,710 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.