How Shadow Demon and Troll Warlord perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Shadow Demon and Troll Warlord win 38.46% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 104 matches.
Playing against this combination often feels manageable. Troll Warlord wants to lock onto a target with Battle Trance and never let go, building Fervor stacks for overwhelming attack speed. Shadow Demon's core setup and save, Disruption, takes a hero out of the fight entirely for a moment. This fundamental pause can break Troll's momentum on a kill target. Even worse, if Shadow Demon uses Disruption to save a committed Troll Warlord, it completely wastes the Battle Trance duration. While Demonic Purge is a decent tool to remove defensive buffs, it doesn’t fix the clashing tempos of their most important spells during a teamfight.
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 | 37.86% | 103 |
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 | 38.46% | ▼ -6.5pp | 104 |
| 7.41d | 44.97% | ▼ -1.1pp | 9,166 |
| 7.41c | 46.10% | ▼ -0.1pp | 4,668 |
| 7.41b | 46.18% | — | 5,604 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.