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

Blink Dagger → Force Staff → Aether Lens · 73 games · win rate 61.6%

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

60.0%10 · 14%

Bought before the horn.

2 · Early game

before the 1st key item

62.8%43 · 59%
53.3%15 · 21%

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

3 · Core

first 3 key items

54.5%22 · 30%
50.0%20 · 27%
61.5%13 · 18%

The build itself, in its most common buying orders.

4 · Late game

next 3 items after the core

72.7%11 · 15%
50.0%10 · 14%

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

47.0% · 536 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.

This build has too few games for its own order, so this is the hero's most common order at this rank and position.

Talents

2 Charges of Disruption

84% · 60.1% · 336

Demonic Purge Applies Shadow Poison

16% · 64.6% · 65

-20s Demonic Purge Cooldown

63% · 56.8% · 874

+15% Disseminate Shared Damage

37% · 57.3% · 510

-1s Shadow Poison Cooldown

74% · 51.3% · 1,691

+20 Movement Speed

26% · 55.3% · 609

+8 Strength

44% · 68.8% · 32

+15% Shadow Poison Damage

56% · 56.1% · 41

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

Talents at 10: the games of this build. Talents at 15, 20, 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% · 468

45.6% · 379

46.6% · 238

42.6% · 204

46.0% · 187

49.7% · 177

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~24:38

10–15 min	▲ 58.7%	75
15–20 min	▲ 53.1%	486
20–25 min	▼ 49.4%	563
25–30 min	▼ 48.6%	368
30–35 min	▲ 52.8%	199
35–40 min	▼ 49.5%	105
40–45 min	▼ 47.6%	42
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: 53.8% wins; later: 49.5%.

Aether Lens~25:59

5–10 min	▲ 100.0%	1
10–15 min	▲ 50.0%	56
15–20 min	▲ 50.5%	299
20–25 min	▼ 46.8%	278
25–30 min	▲ 51.6%	225
30–35 min	▼ 48.0%	179
35–40 min	▲ 50.0%	94
40–45 min	▼ 47.5%	59
45–50 min	▼ 31.3%	16
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: 48.9% wins; later: 48.7%.

Glimmer Cape~26:59

10–15 min	▲ 50.0%	10
15–20 min	▲ 50.5%	190
20–25 min	▼ 45.7%	280
25–30 min	▼ 42.7%	253
30–35 min	▼ 45.9%	196
35–40 min	▼ 40.0%	80
40–45 min	▼ 45.0%	40
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: 47.7% wins; later: 43.6%.

Aghanim's Scepter~37:06

15–20 min	▲ 50.0%	10
20–25 min	▲ 51.9%	27
25–30 min	▲ 63.9%	108
30–35 min	▲ 62.2%	196
35–40 min	▲ 55.1%	234
40–45 min	▲ 52.7%	148
45–50 min	▲ 62.7%	75
50–55 min	▼ 48.6%	35
55–60 min	▲ 63.6%	11
60–65 min	▼ 25.0%	4

Bought before 35:00: 61.6% wins; later: 55.0%.

Force Staff~28:18

10–15 min	▼ 30.0%	10
15–20 min	▲ 52.9%	87
20–25 min	▲ 54.4%	125
25–30 min	▼ 46.4%	153
30–35 min	▼ 48.4%	128
35–40 min	▼ 40.0%	75
40–45 min	▲ 52.0%	25
45–50 min	▲ 57.1%	7
50–55 min	▲ 71.4%	7

Bought before 25:00: 52.7% wins; later: 46.8%.

Eul's Scepter of Divinity~32:14

10–15 min	▼ 0.0%	5
15–20 min	▼ 25.8%	31
20–25 min	▼ 41.3%	46
25–30 min	▲ 52.8%	72
30–35 min	▲ 64.0%	89
35–40 min	▼ 48.1%	52
40–45 min	▲ 65.2%	46
45–50 min	▼ 47.4%	19
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: 42.2% wins; later: 58.3%.

Aeon Disk~40:21

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	▲ 56.3%	32
35–40 min	▲ 61.8%	55
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: 58.4% wins; later: 54.6%.

Guardian Greaves~38:14

15–20 min	▼ 33.3%	6
20–25 min	▲ 50.0%	14
25–30 min	▲ 65.5%	29
30–35 min	▲ 66.7%	36
35–40 min	▲ 73.2%	41
40–45 min	▲ 81.5%	27
45–50 min	▼ 45.5%	22
50–55 min	▼ 44.4%	9
55–60 min	▼ 44.4%	9
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: 61.2% wins; later: 65.8%.