Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41f win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41f, Shadow Demon wins the Shadow Fiend vs Shadow Demon matchup: Shadow Demon beats Shadow Fiend in 51.88% of 13,901 ranked matches.
Trying to save an ally from Shadow Fiend with Disruption is a huge risk. The spell gives him a perfect, uninterrupted channel for Requiem of Souls, turning your best save into his best setup. Shadow Demon is also very fragile and has no real way to escape once a farmed Shadow Fiend gets on top of him. While Demonic Purge is a threat, a timely BKB makes Fiend immune, leaving the support completely exposed. This core interaction turns Shadow Demon’s kit against itself.
This dynamic pressures the Shadow Demon player all game. In lane, Shadow Fiend has better tools for controlling the creeps with Necromastery and can build a lead. Later on, Shadow Demon has to be extremely disciplined, often holding Disruption when he'd normally want to cast it on a diving Fiend. The Shadow Fiend player can abuse this, playing more aggressively knowing that SD's main defensive tool is a potential liability. It puts the whole game on the Shadow Demon to play perfectly around one interaction.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Shadow Fiend's win rate against Shadow Demon 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 | Shadow Fiend win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 67.98% | 178 |
| Crusader & Archon | 56.21% | 523 |
| Legend & Ancient | 51.04% | 721 |
| Divine & Immortal | 51.61% | 217 |
Shadow Fiend's win rate against Shadow Demon in each recent balance patch — whether this matchup is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Shadow Fiend win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41f | 48.12% | ▼ -4.1pp | 13,901 |
| 7.41e | 52.19% | ▼ -0.7pp | 71,225 |
| 7.41d | 52.87% | ▲ +0.6pp | 55,536 |
| 7.41c | 52.31% | — | 20,713 |
Move this data into a draft
Shadow Fiend starts on Radiant and Shadow Demon on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Oct 5, 2026.