How Shadow Demon and Winter Wyvern perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41f, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Shadow Demon and Winter Wyvern win 45.23% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,805 matches.
Saving a single core with both Disruption and Cold Embrace feels safe on paper, but it's often a trap. You're stacking two long-cooldown defensive spells on one target, disabling them for a long time and leaving the rest of your team exposed. Both Winter Wyvern and Shadow Demon want to be the primary save for the team, so having both creates a redundancy. This pairing also struggles to be proactive. In lane, they lack reliable stuns to set up kills, and later on, their abilities can actively work against each other. A well-timed Disruption from Shadow Demon can easily ruin a Winter's Curse by hiding the main target, making teamfights awkward.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Legend & Ancient | 45.90% | 122 |
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 | 45.23% | ▲ +0.4pp | 3,805 |
| 7.41e | 44.79% | ▲ +1.2pp | 11,950 |
| 7.41d | 43.61% | ▼ -2.1pp | 9,383 |
| 7.41c | 45.73% | — | 4,389 |
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Data updated Oct 5, 2026.