How Shadow Demon and Terrorblade perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Shadow Demon and Terrorblade win 41.04% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 134 matches.
Picking this pair often forces a difficult choice: does the team play to Shadow Demon's aggressive timings, or does it protect Terrorblade until he can farm? The two plans rarely align. Shadow Demon is great at forcing early fights with Disruption and Soul Catcher, but Terrorblade lacks the ability to convert those setups into early kills. He needs to hit creeps, not heroes. By the time Terrorblade is ready to fight with Metamorphosis, the windows that Shadow Demon creates have often closed. The result is two heroes operating on different timetables, pulling the team in opposite directions and struggling to execute a single coherent game plan.
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 | 47.54% | 122 |
| Legend & Ancient | 47.83% | 115 |
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 | 41.04% | ▼ -1.8pp | 134 |
| 7.41d | 42.86% | ▼ -1.3pp | 12,118 |
| 7.41c | 44.11% | ▲ +0.1pp | 6,812 |
| 7.41b | 44.06% | — | 8,067 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.