How Shadow Fiend and Riki perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Shadow Fiend and Riki win 50.44% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 908 matches.
Picking both Riki and Shadow Fiend feels like you're betting everything on pure damage. The upside is clear: Riki’s Smoke Screen creates a perfect area for Shadow Fiend to land multiple Shadowrazes on silenced targets. Their combined burst can delete a support before anyone can react. The weakness is that neither hero offers a hard stun or a way to save the other. If the enemy team has good defensive items or can survive the initial burst, this duo has very little follow-up control to secure a kill. It makes for aggressive, fast-paced games where you either snowball from early pickoffs or fall apart against more durable, crowd-control-heavy lineups.
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 | 52.21% | 565 |
| Crusader & Archon | 52.81% | 1,013 |
| Legend & Ancient | 51.35% | 703 |
| Divine & Immortal | 50.43% | 234 |
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 | 50.44% | ▼ -1.1pp | 908 |
| 7.41d | 51.56% | ▲ +0.2pp | 87,121 |
| 7.41c | 51.36% | ▲ +1.1pp | 42,067 |
| 7.41b | 50.21% | — | 38,599 |
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Data updated Aug 11, 2026.