How Doom and Shadow Fiend perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Doom and Shadow Fiend win 43.47% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 1,348 matches.
Drafting both Doom and Shadow Fiend puts a lot of pressure on the rest of your team. Shadow Fiend needs strong, reliable lockdown to guarantee his Shadowraze damage, but Doom’s Infernal Blade provides only a brief mini-stun. This forces SF to rely on his own positioning much more heavily. Both heroes also demand a significant amount of farm to hit their core item timings, which can lead them to compete for the same camps and lanes, slowing the whole team down. In teamfights, Doom is excellent at disabling a single high-priority target, but he offers little protection or wider setup for a vulnerable Shadow Fiend trying to get a good Requiem of Souls.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Herald & Guardian | 40.59% | 404 |
| Crusader & Archon | 42.64% | 1,196 |
| Legend & Ancient | 44.20% | 1,190 |
| Divine & Immortal | 42.23% | 592 |
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 | 43.47% | ▼ -1.2pp | 1,348 |
| 7.41d | 44.62% | ▼ -0.3pp | 120,906 |
| 7.41c | 44.92% | ▲ +1.9pp | 42,061 |
| 7.41b | 43.00% | — | 44,034 |
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Data updated Aug 12, 2026.