How Shadow Demon and Troll Warlord perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41f, from ranked matches.
As teammates
Together 47.19%
Win rate when Shadow Demon and Troll Warlord are on the same team, over 3,535 ranked matches (7.41f).
In Dota 2 7.41f, Shadow Demon and Troll Warlord win 47.19% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,535 matches.
Why this works
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.
Shadow Demon + Troll Warlord across patches
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
7.41f
47.19%
▲ +0.9pp
3,535
7.41e
46.32%
▲ +1.4pp
10,318
7.41d
44.95%
▼ -1.2pp
10,259
7.41c
46.10%
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4,668
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