How Chen and Shadow Fiend perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Chen and Shadow Fiend win 47.14% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 140 matches.
Facing this combo often feels like playing against a fractured team. Shadow Fiend wants to spend the early game farming souls and building up damage, but he offers no lockdown to help Chen's ganks. Meanwhile, Chen's plan is all about early grouping and pushing with his creeps. This timing mismatch forces a choice: either Chen plays passively and wastes his peak window, or Shadow Fiend must join fights before he has key items, making him easy to burst. Without a way to reliably set up Shadowraze, and with two heroes wanting to play the map in completely different ways, the whole strategy feels disconnected from the start.
How this pairing performs across skill brackets — the duo's team win rate 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 | Team win rate | Matches |
|---|---|---|
| Crusader & Archon | 40.77% | 130 |
This duo's team win rate in each recent balance patch — whether the pairing is trending up or down. Patches without enough matches are omitted.
| Patch | Team win rate | Change | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7.41e | 47.14% | ▲ +2.8pp | 140 |
| 7.41d | 44.34% | ▲ +0.1pp | 10,734 |
| 7.41c | 44.27% | ▲ +1.1pp | 5,694 |
| 7.41b | 43.15% | — | 5,648 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.