How Monkey King and Shadow Fiend perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Monkey King and Shadow Fiend win 42.95% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 880 matches.
Trying to hold a position against this lineup often feels less threatening than it should. Both Monkey King and Shadow Fiend need a lot of farm to be effective, so they tend to compete for the same safe parts of the map instead of creating pressure together. Shadow Fiend offers almost no lockdown to help set up a good Wukong's Command, leaving Monkey King to find his own openings. This makes their teamfights feel disjointed. We haven't seen this combination very often recently, so perhaps there is a new approach.
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 | 44.72% | 483 |
| Crusader & Archon | 42.49% | 932 |
| Legend & Ancient | 41.46% | 714 |
| Divine & Immortal | 41.61% | 310 |
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 | 42.95% | ▲ +0.1pp | 880 |
| 7.41d | 42.82% | ▲ +0.3pp | 88,422 |
| 7.41c | 42.48% | ▼ -0.4pp | 52,303 |
| 7.41b | 42.83% | — | 58,246 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.