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Shadow Demon
Shadow Demon
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Shadow Demon

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Win Rate47.0%#106 overall
Pick Rate2.1%#118 overall
Matchups
Chen
+7.9
Visage
+6.5
Omniknight
+5.4
Meepo
-4.0
Lone Druid
-6.8
Lycan
-7.9
Best against
Shadow Demon
Worst against
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Safe Lane 
0.5%
28.4%
7%
W19%
D22%
L34%
18%
Suggested partners
UndyingMedusaBounty HunterBatriderMonkey King
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Mid Lane 
3.3%
43.0%
10%
W37%
D23%
L25%
4%
Strongest against
NecrophosQueen of PainPuckLinaSniper
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Off Lane 
1.1%
40.7%
4%
W18%
D19%
L39%
19%
Suggested partners
MedusaMarsDrow RangerDeath Prophet
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Soft Support 
41.8%
49.9%
4%
W26%
D26%
L35%
8%
Suggested partners
UndyingSniperTemplar AssassinHuskarMirana
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Hard Support 
Most played
53.4%
48.3%
5%
W30%
D27%
L32%
6%
Suggested partners
Dragon KnightRazorOgre MagiNecrophosTemplar Assassin
Abilities
Disruption
Disruption
Unit Target ∙ Units
Max first
Best level 1
Disseminate
Disseminate
Unit Target ∙ Units
Shadow Poison
Shadow Poison
Point Target
Demonic Cleanse
Demonic Cleanse
Unit Target ∙ Allies
New
Demonic Purge
Demonic Purge
Unit Target ∙ Enemies
Level at 6
Upgrade
Unknown
Passive
Talents
2 Charges of Disruption+1.0%
-30s Demonic Purge Cooldown
+150 Demonic Purge/Cleanse Damage/Heal+0.8%
+15% Disseminate Shared Damage
-1s Shadow Poison Cooldown
+25 Movement Speed+2.9%
+10 Strength+2.1%
+50% Shadow Poison Damage
Items
Boots
Boots of Speed
48%
Arcane Boots
49%
Guardian Greaves
67%
Starting-1:40
Magic Stick
50%
Sentry Ward
50%
Blood Grenade
49%
Gauntlets of Strength
49%
Early0:00 - 15:00
Pavise
64%
Blink Dagger
61%
Force Staff
56%
Aether Lens
56%
Mid15:00 - 35:00
Buckler
70%
Mekansm
66%
Lotus Orb
64%
Aghanim's Scepter
63%
Late35:00+
Octarine Core
68%
Soul Booster
66%
Greater Healing Lotus
64%
Buckler
64%
Featured guides
JustyCake
31:27
Radiant
7
/
6
/
24
Disruption
Disseminate
Shadow Poison
Demonic Purge
Magic Stick-01:29
Arcane Boots07:21
Wind Lace08:05
Aether Lens15:07
Glimmer Cape23:33
Aghanim's Scepter31:03
Essence Ring
tSG. Qundalini
54:21
Radiant
11
/
12
/
16
Disruption
Disseminate
Shadow Poison
Demonic Purge
Arcane Boots08:38
Glimmer Cape15:40
Aghanim's Scepter41:15
Observer Ward49:32
Blink Dagger51:40
Ghost Scepter 
ClaR1ce
34:56
Radiant
4
/
2
/
30
Disruption
Disseminate
Shadow Poison
Demonic Purge
Arcane Boots07:25
Smoke of Deceit10:43
Aether Lens15:28
Blink Dagger21:58
Aghanim's Scepter33:22
Whisper of the Dread
Top players
1
Redhail
+13
2
Enjoy
+9
3
milferi
+9
4
ПЧЁЛЫЧ
+7
5
Sergh
+6
Recent rampages
Египетская сила
12:51 AM - 6/6
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Mars
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2:54 AM - 6/4
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Magnus
Sven
CHOLO STYLE
2:20 AM - 6/4
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Lina
Terrorblade
Clockwerk
LIBERENME DE MI SUFRIMIENTO
4:28 PM - 6/2
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Spectre
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Dr. Demonsor
1:21 AM - 6/1
Mirana
Anti-Mage
Lina
Pudge
Mars
Details
Spewing clouds of demonic poison to damage enemies or scout the battlefield, few dare to approach Shadow Demon. Banishing an enemy as his allies gather for the kill, he can inflict demonic curses as he summons traitorous illusions to turn enemy strength against itself.
Hero ID
79
Aliases
sd
LoreAmong the sovereign Demons with explicit access to this world, Doom scarcely bothers with the affairs of Noninfernals and Lesser Spectral Consorts, while Shadow Fiend passes through almost exclusively on collecting expeditions. The Shadow Demon, however, has always taken a deep and abiding interest in the material plane, as if sensing that mastery of this gritty dimensional nexus might be the key to total domination of all realities.

Summoned first by minor wizards, the Shadow Demon granted every wish and put on increasingly impressive displays of power until he had the full attention of the greatest demonologists, and through them the various lords, tyrants, autarchs and heirophants who depended on sorcery to buttress their mundane power. So great was his deception that all his summoners considered themselves the master and Shadow Demon the servant; meanwhile, he eroded their identities and made their minds his own. In the end, most members of the cult were hollow puppets, extensions of his evil will.

What Shadow Demon's next step would have been remains open to speculation, for around this time, Nevermore the Shadow Fiend bit into a particularly nasty-tasting soul and discovered that it held nothing but a foul nougat of Shadow Demon's essence. Alerted that a coup was underway, and that the ancient equilibrium of the Umbral Pact was about to be destabilized, Doom and Shadow Fiend briefly joined forces to destroy the burgeoning cult. Combining spells of incredible force, they undid Shadow Demon's centuries of patient work, reducing his cult to smithereens--and all its members to a bloody splatter. Nothing remained except a tiny speck of demon shadow. Immortal and irreducible, this mote of evil was enough to seed the Shadow Demon's next scheme, and in fits and starts, over further centuries, he began to regroup.

Whatever that speck of shadow touched, it tainted, and its influence gradually grew. A chaos of damaged parts pulled together, reknit, and combined to give Shadow Demon a form even stronger than his former. He is all but complete now, and his plan for infinite dominion lacks all of its former weaknesses. It would seem that such a being of pure malice and malevolence, a threat to all creation, would be forever out of place in our world...yet Shadow Demon does not lack for followers.