How Muerta and Shadow Fiend perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Muerta and Shadow Fiend win 38.64% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 546 matches.
Playing against a Muerta and a Shadow Fiend feels surprisingly manageable. Both heroes want to occupy the same core role, needing a lot of farm to get going, so they often end up splitting resources and hitting their item timings much later than they'd like. Neither offers the hard lockdown the other needs to reliably land their damage. Shadow Fiend can struggle to connect multiple Shadowrazes without a setup stun, and Muerta’s fear from The Calling often makes targets run unpredictably, which doesn't help. You end up with two damage-heavy cores who can't effectively protect each other or hold anyone down, making it easy to isolate and pick them off.
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 | 44.31% | 325 |
| Crusader & Archon | 43.16% | 651 |
| Legend & Ancient | 40.60% | 468 |
| Divine & Immortal | 36.65% | 161 |
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 | 38.64% | ▼ -4.7pp | 546 |
| 7.41d | 43.32% | ▼ -0.4pp | 63,086 |
| 7.41c | 43.70% | ▼ -0.1pp | 32,845 |
| 7.41b | 43.80% | — | 33,831 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.