Shadow Demon — win rate, matchups and best allies

Popular builds

A build is the first three key items a player bought, in any order, shown in the most common buying order. Win rate and how often it is played are shown under each, from matches with item timings.

Top 5 builds cover 33% of games that reach three key items

Selected build

Aether Lens → Blink Dagger → Aghanim's Scepter · 133 games · win rate 67.7%

Everything below follows the selected build.

Full build

From the starting items to the late game, in this build's games with the filters above. Each phase shows up to 3 combinations with win rate, games and share of the build's games; the most played is highlighted.

Most common path

1 · Starting items

0:00

100.0%5 · 4%

Bought before the horn.

2 · Early game

before the 1st key item

78.7%61 · 46%
61.4%44 · 33%

Finished items only: no components, consumables or Aghanim's Shard. Any order; shown in the most common one.

3 · Core

first 3 key items

74.5%51 · 38%
64.1%39 · 29%
64.0%25 · 19%

The build itself, in its most common buying orders.

4 · Late game

next 3 items after the core

71.4%14 · 11%
58.3%12 · 9%
70.0%10 · 8%

Any order, shown in the most common one. A game counts if it reached at least one of the items.

Situational items

Bought in at least 5% of this build's games and not on the most common path, sorted by win-rate change.

No item outside the most common path is bought in at least 5% of this build's games with 30 games on each side.

Win-rate change: win rate of the build's games with the item minus without it, in percentage points. At least 30 games on each side.

Skill order, levels 1–25

70.0% · 30 games with this order

Ability	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25
Disruption	1											12		14	15
Disseminate				4				8	9	10
Shadow Poison		2	3		5		7
Demonic Purge						6							13					18
Talent											T					T				T					T
Attributes																	17		19		21	22	23	24

The most common order. Games count if they followed it for as long as they lasted, from 10 points on. Gold numbers: the levels where an ultimate point or a talent usually comes. T: a talent is taken here; the tree shows which.

Talents

2 Charges of Disruption

84% · 60.1% · 331

Demonic Purge Applies Shadow Poison

16% · 64.6% · 65

-20s Demonic Purge Cooldown

66% · 71.4% · 77

+15% Disseminate Shared Damage

34% · 72.5% · 40

-1s Shadow Poison Cooldown

73% · 51.4% · 1,664

+20 Movement Speed

27% · 55.3% · 602

+8 Strength

40% · 73.6% · 53

+15% Shadow Poison Damage

60% · 63.7% · 80

+2 to All Attributes · levels 17, 19, 21–24

Talents at 10, 20: the games of this build. Talents at 15, 25: all the hero's games at this rank and position, because this build has under 30 games on a side. Under each talent: how often it is picked, win rate, games. ★ the higher win rate we are 95% sure of, with at least 30 games on each side. Bar: how often each side is picked.

Neutral items

35.3% · 467

45.6% · 379

46.2% · 236

42.6% · 204

46.0% · 187

49.4% · 176

When to buy

Win rate depending on when the item was bought (first purchase, 5-minute windows). Earlier is usually better — this shows by how much.

Blink Dagger~24:39

10–15 min	▲ 61.1%	72
15–20 min	▲ 53.3%	482
20–25 min	▼ 49.6%	552
25–30 min	▼ 49.3%	363
30–35 min	▲ 52.5%	198
35–40 min	▼ 49.5%	105
40–45 min	▲ 50.0%	40
45–50 min	▲ 56.3%	16
50–55 min	▼ 25.0%	12
55–60 min	▲ 66.7%	3
60–65 min	▼ 0.0%	1
65–70 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 20:00: 54.3% wins; later: 49.8%.

Aether Lens~25:57

5–10 min	▲ 100.0%	1
10–15 min	▲ 50.0%	56
15–20 min	▲ 50.5%	295
20–25 min	▼ 46.5%	275
25–30 min	▲ 51.1%	223
30–35 min	▼ 48.0%	177
35–40 min	▲ 50.5%	91
40–45 min	▼ 46.6%	58
45–50 min	▼ 33.3%	15
50–55 min	▼ 10.0%	10
55–60 min	▲ 50.0%	4
60–65 min	▲ 100.0%	1
65–70 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 25:00: 48.8% wins; later: 48.6%.

Glimmer Cape~26:58

10–15 min	▲ 50.0%	10
15–20 min	▲ 50.8%	189
20–25 min	▼ 45.8%	275
25–30 min	▼ 42.9%	247
30–35 min	▼ 45.8%	190
35–40 min	▼ 40.0%	80
40–45 min	▼ 46.2%	39
45–50 min	▼ 40.0%	10
50–55 min	▲ 54.5%	11
55–60 min	▼ 33.3%	3
60–65 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 25:00: 47.9% wins; later: 43.7%.

Aghanim's Scepter~37:04

15–20 min	▲ 50.0%	10
20–25 min	▲ 51.9%	27
25–30 min	▲ 63.9%	108
30–35 min	▲ 62.6%	195
35–40 min	▲ 55.6%	232
40–45 min	▲ 52.7%	146
45–50 min	▲ 61.6%	73
50–55 min	▼ 48.6%	35
55–60 min	▲ 63.6%	11
60–65 min	▼ 25.0%	4

Bought before 35:00: 61.8% wins; later: 55.1%.

Force Staff~28:15

10–15 min	▼ 30.0%	10
15–20 min	▲ 52.3%	86
20–25 min	▲ 54.9%	122
25–30 min	▼ 46.4%	153
30–35 min	▼ 48.0%	125
35–40 min	▼ 40.5%	74
40–45 min	▲ 50.0%	24
45–50 min	▲ 57.1%	7
50–55 min	▲ 83.3%	6

Bought before 25:00: 52.8% wins; later: 46.8%.

Eul's Scepter of Divinity~32:13

10–15 min	▼ 0.0%	4
15–20 min	▼ 26.7%	30
20–25 min	▼ 41.3%	46
25–30 min	▲ 51.4%	70
30–35 min	▲ 64.0%	89
35–40 min	▼ 49.0%	51
40–45 min	▲ 68.2%	44
45–50 min	▲ 50.0%	18
50–55 min	▲ 80.0%	5
55–60 min	▼ 0.0%	2
60–65 min	▼ 33.3%	3
65–70 min	▼ 0.0%	1
75–80 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 30:00: 42.0% wins; later: 59.3%.

Aeon Disk~40:23

10–15 min	▼ 0.0%	1
15–20 min	▲ 50.0%	2
20–25 min	▲ 100.0%	5
25–30 min	▼ 44.4%	18
30–35 min	▲ 54.8%	31
35–40 min	▲ 61.1%	54
40–45 min	▲ 58.3%	48
45–50 min	▼ 48.1%	27
50–55 min	▲ 55.0%	20
55–60 min	▲ 57.1%	7
60–65 min	▲ 60.0%	5
75–80 min	▼ 0.0%	1

Bought before 40:00: 57.7% wins; later: 54.6%.

Guardian Greaves~38:15

15–20 min	▼ 33.3%	6
20–25 min	▼ 41.7%	12
25–30 min	▲ 65.5%	29
30–35 min	▲ 66.7%	36
35–40 min	▲ 73.2%	41
40–45 min	▲ 80.8%	26
45–50 min	▼ 45.5%	22
50–55 min	▼ 44.4%	9
55–60 min	▼ 37.5%	8
60–65 min	▲ 80.0%	5
65–70 min	▲ 100.0%	1
70–75 min	▲ 50.0%	2
75–80 min	▲ 100.0%	1

Bought before 35:00: 60.2% wins; later: 65.2%.