How Shadow Shaman and Storm Spirit perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Shadow Shaman and Storm Spirit win 43.31% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,420 matches.
Pairing these two heroes often feels like having two different solutions for the same problem. In theory, disables from Shadow Shaman should guarantee a kill for Storm Spirit. In practice, their styles clash. Storm Spirit wants to use Ball Lightning to dive deep onto a fragile backliner. Shadow Shaman is much slower and can't follow that far, preferring to lock down whichever enemy is closest. A Shaman channeling Shackles is also a stationary target, which is the opposite of how a mobile Storm wants a fight to proceed. They both want to enable a pick-off, but often on completely different targets at different positions on the screen.
This disconnect defines their mid-game teamfights. Storm Spirit will zip into the enemy backline to hunt a support, while Shadow Shaman is left using Hex and Shackles defensively on a frontline core diving his own team. While both might successfully disable a hero, their damage isn't focused and the overall impact is lessened. They can certainly win engagements if an enemy is caught completely alone, but their kits don't naturally combine to create something greater. They often end up playing two separate games within the same fight, making coordination feel clumsy rather than powerful.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 45.55% | 652 |
| Crusader & Archon | 43.93% | 1,582 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.24% | 1,196 |
| Divine & Immortal | 49.43% | 441 |
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 | 43.31% | ▼ -5.2pp | 1,420 |
| 7.41d | 48.49% | ▼ -1.0pp | 140,459 |
| 7.41c | 49.51% | ▲ +1.3pp | 77,093 |
| 7.41b | 48.22% | — | 69,509 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.