How Medusa and Shadow Fiend perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Medusa and Shadow Fiend win 46.35% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 4,542 matches.
Pairing Medusa and Shadow Fiend puts immense pressure on your map's resources. Both cores want to occupy the safest jungle areas to accelerate, effectively competing with each other for gold. Medusa is famously item-dependent, and Shadow Fiend needs to flash-farm with Shadowraze to build his advantage. Neither hero excels at creating space for the other early on, which leaves your supports stretched thin trying to defend two greedy carries instead of enabling one.
This dynamic often leads to a slow start, conceding towers and map control. Opponents can recognize the lack of early pressure and group up for objectives without much risk. The plan is to stall until both Medusa and Shadow Fiend have multiple major items, then win a decisive fight with Stone Gaze and Requiem of Souls. By that point, however, the enemy team has often built such a lead from their early aggression that even a perfect fight is not enough to come back.
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 | 44.78% | 297 |
| Crusader & Archon | 43.95% | 719 |
| Legend & Ancient | 42.94% | 489 |
| Divine & Immortal | 42.50% | 120 |
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 | 46.35% | ▼ -1.2pp | 4,542 |
| 7.41d | 47.53% | ▲ +0.5pp | 53,545 |
| 7.41c | 47.05% | ▲ +0.5pp | 23,241 |
| 7.41b | 46.58% | — | 23,548 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.