How Shadow Fiend and Omniknight perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Shadow Fiend and Omniknight win 51.52% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 6,145 matches.
Saving a committed Shadow Fiend can feel awkward. While Omniknight’s Heavenly Grace offers a strong dispel, Shadow Fiend often relies on his own Black King Bar to start a fight, which can make the save feel redundant in that key moment. The main threat to a diving Shadow Fiend is typically a rapid chain of magical stuns and burst, often killing him before a reactive save can even be cast. Guardian Angel is a powerful tool against physical damage, but it does little to help if the Requiem of Souls is canceled by a lockdown that a BKB would have prevented.
The result is a pairing that can feel slightly out of sync across the game. Shadow Fiend wants to control the fight’s tempo with aggressive blinks, whereas Omniknight excels at turning around a fight that the enemy has already started. This can lead to situations where SF dies alone on an initiation, or the duo waits for a perfect setup that never comes because they lack reliable lockdown. An enemy team can exploit this by bursting Shadow Fiend with spells, then simply backing away if Guardian Angel is used, ready to re-engage after it ends.
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 | 50.79% | 378 |
| Crusader & Archon | 51.28% | 901 |
| Legend & Ancient | 50.72% | 838 |
| Divine & Immortal | 52.25% | 356 |
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 | 51.52% | ▲ +2.2pp | 6,145 |
| 7.41d | 49.34% | ▼ -0.7pp | 67,700 |
| 7.41c | 49.99% | ▲ +3.3pp | 21,486 |
| 7.41b | 46.65% | — | 20,922 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.