Shadow Demon

Shadow Demon is a menacing ranged Intelligence hero, known for using his strong set of spells to devastate enemy heroes when caught out alone. Disruption enraptures an enemy or ally hero, banishing them to the shadow realm then returning them a short time later, accompanied by two demonic illusions of the target that serve the Shadow Demon's will. Soul Catcher curses a random victim within the AoE, causing them to take an extra percentage of damage from all attacks and spells for a short time. Using deadly Shadow Poison, he can harass any unfortunate foe he encounters, gradually building up strength with each seeping of the poison, until the Shadow Demon releases all toxins at once from the target in a devastating burst of damage. Shadow Demon's ultimate ability, Demonic Purge, corrupts an enemy from within the depths of their shadow: the Shadow Demon greatly slows his target and removes all purgeable buffs, crippling and weakening them, before finally ripping away his control in a burst of damage. Utilizing a strong set of spells and powerful ganking ability, Shadow Demon is a often picked as a support or roaming hero, who scales well into the late game.

Tips

 * If you are facing a hero with a strong orb effect like Anti-Mage in the lane, use Disruption on them often and force them to flee from the illusions.
 * Shadow Poison becomes much more lethal when stacked up to 5 or more, with this, you can destroy enemy heroes in the lane, even in the earliest stages. However, the mana cost is great and you should learn to control your mana or buy mana-boosting items for you to perform.
 * Soul Catcher synergizes extremely well with single-target nukes, such as Finger of Death, Laguna Blade, or Dagon.
 * Soul Catcher is extremely effective in conjunction with Pure damage spells since they ignore any kind of magic armor and are amplified.
 * Disruption can save you or teammates from incoming damage and spells.
 * Disruption can be used to help teammates land spells with long cast times or delays. Examples include skills such as Torrent, Sacred Arrow, Light Strike Array and even Sun Strike or Slithereen Crush. When combined with Soul Catcher, this makes for a powerful ganking combination.

Trivia

 * In Dota, Shadow Demon's hero name was Eredar. This was removed in his transition to Dota 2 to avoid copyright issues with Blizzard as the Eredar are a race of magic wielders from the Warcraft universe.
 * Shadow Demon's fun/alternate name was "Giblet", innards of birds that are used in cooking.
 * All of his spell sound effects are based on some of his voice lines in the demon language "Ozkavosh". This Shadow_demon_spawn_04.mp3 line (" Sa nith icha gluth.") is used for Disruption, the first part of this Shadow_demon_attack_12.mp3 line ("Ozh icha tak izh") is used by Soul Catcher, this Shadow_demon_failure_01.mp3 is used by Shadow Poison and this Shadow_demon_rival_14.mp3 line ("Ozh icha tak lash") is split up into 3 parts and then used by Demonic Purge.