Head-to-head Dota 2 7.41e win rate from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Wraith King wins the Shadow Fiend vs Wraith King matchup: Wraith King beats Shadow Fiend in 58.14% of 3,110 ranked matches.
Trying to land a perfect Requiem of Souls on Wraith King often feels like a trap. Shadow Fiend commits his entire combo to get a kill, only for Reincarnation to completely reset the fight. When Wraith King gets back up, he's at full resources, while Shadow Fiend is left with his spells on cooldown, standing inside the Reincarnation slow. This usually means a quick death for the low-armor SF, who has no natural way to escape the follow-up stun and attacks that are sure to come.
This dynamic forces Shadow Fiend to play the entire game cautiously. Instead of confidently leading a teamfight, he has to wait for Reincarnation to be used on someone else or avoid Wraith King entirely. Meanwhile, Wraith King can play aggressively, using his own body to bait out Shadow Fiend’s big spells, knowing he'll survive. He can initiate on SF without fear, effectively neutralizing the enemy's primary source of burst damage for the entire duration of his ultimate's cooldown.
How the matchup shifts across skill brackets — Shadow Fiend's win rate against Wraith King 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 | 41.69% | 1,384 |
| Crusader & Archon | 40.98% | 3,555 |
| Legend & Ancient | 42.66% | 2,738 |
| Divine & Immortal | 45.69% | 766 |
Shadow Fiend's win rate against Wraith King 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 41.86% | ▼ -0.7pp | 3,110 |
| 7.41d | 42.54% | ▼ -0.9pp | 249,066 |
| 7.41c | 43.39% | ▲ +1.2pp | 99,667 |
| 7.41b | 42.15% | — | 100,146 |
Move this data into a draft
Shadow Fiend starts on Radiant and Wraith King on Dire. Add the other eight picks to see whether this head-to-head edge survives the full draft.
Data updated Aug 11, 2026.