How Shadow Demon and Warlock perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Shadow Demon and Warlock win 34.45% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 119 matches.
Setting up a teamfight with this duo often feels clumsy. Shadow Demon can catch an enemy with Disruption, but that same target is immune to Warlock’s Fatal Bonds until they reappear. This missed timing can break the chain of your spell combo before it even starts. In fights, both heroes want to play far in the back, but neither offers the instant lockdown or frontline presence needed to make that safe. The result is two squishy supports who can’t easily protect each other or their cores. Their ultimates also overlap heavily, with Demonic Purge and a Golem often being overkill on one hero while another enemy runs free.
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 | 38.02% | 121 |
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 | 34.45% | ▼ -9.9pp | 119 |
| 7.41d | 44.34% | ▲ +0.6pp | 11,354 |
| 7.41c | 43.79% | ▲ +0.2pp | 5,707 |
| 7.41b | 43.57% | — | 8,045 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.