How Shadow Fiend and Puck perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Shadow Fiend and Puck win 45.27% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 5,410 matches.
Facing this duo often feels like dealing with two midlaners on one team. Both Puck and Shadow Fiend want the same resources: priority farm, early levels, and a strong frontline to enable them. Since neither hero provides that durability, the draft becomes awkward. A Dream Coil can set up a perfect Requiem of Souls, but this one powerful combo rarely makes up for having two fragile, greedy cores. The rest of your team is left trying to create all the space and soak all the damage for two heroes who want to occupy similar positions.
The game plan feels fragile from the start, as one hero is typically forced into an uncomfortable lane. From there, they compete for safe farm across the map, slowing down their individual timings. Teamfights become heavily reliant on landing the Coil and Requiem combination. Opponents with Black King Bars or good defensive saves can often weather that initial burst. Afterwards, both Puck and Shadow Fiend are left vulnerable, and the team frequently lacks the tools to win a longer, drawn-out fight.
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 | 44.55% | 211 |
| Crusader & Archon | 45.68% | 637 |
| Legend & Ancient | 46.76% | 725 |
| Divine & Immortal | 51.54% | 551 |
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 | 45.27% | ▼ -0.5pp | 5,410 |
| 7.41d | 45.77% | ▼ -0.7pp | 57,425 |
| 7.41c | 46.50% | ▲ +2.7pp | 22,464 |
| 7.41b | 43.77% | — | 20,848 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.