How Shadow Fiend and Skywrath Mage perform as teammates in Dota 2 7.41e, from ranked matches.
In Dota 2 7.41e, Shadow Fiend and Skywrath Mage win 47.65% of ranked matches when playing on the same team, over 24,783 matches.
Playing for two different tempos can stretch a team thin. Shadow Fiend’s priority is to hit a flash-farming stride with Shadowraze, building up souls and gold to hit his item timings. Skywrath Mage wants to be aggressive from the start, using his potent magic damage to secure early kills around the map. This duo can struggle to connect their damage reliably; Skywrath's Ancient Seal provides a great magic amp, but without a hard stun from either hero, it's difficult to hold a target down for SF to land multiple razes and his ultimate.
This often leads to a mid-game where one hero’s plan has to be sacrificed for the other's. If the team commits to Skywrath Mage's constant fighting, Shadow Fiend can easily fall behind on farm, delaying his BKB and other crucial items. If the team instead plays to protect SF's space, Skywrath's early power spike can go to waste. This puts a heavy burden on the other heroes in the draft to provide the frontline presence and lockdown that this pair simply doesn't have together.
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 | 50.68% | 1,622 |
| Crusader & Archon | 49.71% | 3,977 |
| Legend & Ancient | 48.34% | 2,948 |
| Divine & Immortal | 48.51% | 1,072 |
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 | 47.65% | ▼ -0.9pp | 24,783 |
| 7.41d | 48.55% | ▲ +0.2pp | 258,002 |
| 7.41c | 48.38% | ▲ +1.8pp | 95,188 |
| 7.41b | 46.61% | — | 89,559 |
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Data updated Aug 17, 2026.