How Naga Siren and Shadow Fiend perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Naga Siren and Shadow Fiend win 45.87% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 3,896 matches.
Picking these two heroes together is a bet on landing one specific ultimate combination. Naga Siren's Song of the Siren can set up stationary targets for a full-duration Requiem of Souls from Shadow Fiend. The main issue is that both heroes are incredibly greedy and need a lot of farm to be effective. They often want the same safe jungle camps and lane creeps to hit their item timings. Naga Siren is built to farm the whole map with her illusions, which can easily starve a core like Shadow Fiend who also needs to secure his own items to have an impact.
This shared need for resources can put your team on the back foot from the start. Your game plan becomes about stalling and farming until you can execute the Song and Requiem combo. Opponents can exploit this by pressuring lanes early, knowing your lineup is weak before those key ultimates are online. If that big combo is avoided with good positioning or buybacks, the whole strategy can fall apart, since so much of the draft's power is concentrated in that single, high-stakes moment.
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 | 48.45% | 483 |
| Crusader & Archon | 39.54% | 607 |
| Legend & Ancient | 44.74% | 266 |
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 | 45.87% | ▼ -1.1pp | 3,896 |
| 7.41d | 46.92% | ▼ -2.2pp | 44,314 |
| 7.41c | 49.16% | ▲ +1.4pp | 19,502 |
| 7.41b | 47.80% | — | 20,312 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.