How Shadow Demon and Wraith King perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Shadow Demon and Wraith King win 52.25% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 356 matches.
Picking a support for Wraith King usually means finding someone to help him keep fighting, but this duo's kits can work against each other. The core problem lies in the interaction between Disruption and Reincarnation. Using Shadow Demon's main save on Wraith King is often redundant; you're hiding a hero who is already planning to die and come back with a second life. This can backfire by taking your team's main frontline presence out of the fight at a crucial moment, allowing the enemy to reposition or focus on more vulnerable targets.
This disconnect shows up in mid-game teamfights. Shadow Demon excels at kiting and setting up kills from a distance over several seconds. Wraith King has a much simpler plan: walk at a target, stun them, and force a fight. While Shadow Demon is stacking his poisons, Wraith King might already be deep in the fight and needing a reset that Disruption can awkwardly delay. They operate on different tempos, leading to uncoordinated engagements where neither hero is able to fully enable the other's strengths, forcing them to play more like two individuals than a cohesive pair.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 53.25% | 154 |
| Crusader & Archon | 53.75% | 413 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.19% | 309 |
| Divine & Immortal | 56.90% | 116 |
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 | 52.25% | ▲ +2.9pp | 356 |
| 7.41d | 49.31% | ▲ +0.7pp | 35,874 |
| 7.41c | 48.64% | ▲ +0.7pp | 16,116 |
| 7.41b | 47.93% | — | 21,107 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.