How Lycan and Shadow Fiend perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Lycan and Shadow Fiend win 49.77% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 426 matches.
A mid-game push from Lycan often leaves the team feeling split. He wants to use Shapeshift to force objectives, but Shadow Fiend is a farm-dependent mid who needs that time to build up souls and find key items. This timing mismatch is the core problem. If the team groups with Lycan, Shadow Fiend's farm gets choked out and he falls behind schedule. If SF keeps farming, Lycan is missing a primary damage dealer for his push. Later on, they still don't enable each other well; Lycan provides no hard lockdown to set up a good Requiem of Souls for Shadow Fiend.
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 | 46.91% | 162 |
| Crusader & Archon | 47.11% | 380 |
| Legend & Ancient | 49.39% | 326 |
| Divine & Immortal | 55.35% | 215 |
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 | 49.77% | ▲ +1.9pp | 426 |
| 7.41d | 47.87% | ▼ -0.6pp | 28,626 |
| 7.41c | 48.51% | ▲ +4.1pp | 13,468 |
| 7.41b | 44.43% | — | 8,811 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.