Shadow Fiend — hero grid for mains
Shadow Fiend is an Agility hero, ranged, played as carry (1), with a 42.4% win rate and 13th place by games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026. Below — a grid with Shadow Fiend in Mains and the hero's places in the site's layouts.
In-game name and nicknames
Shadow Fiend is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Шэдоу Финд” (or “сф”, “невермор” and “шадоу финд”). Short names for Shadow Fiend you will see in chat: “sf”. The game files call the hero “nevermore”, and the site's search knows that name too.
Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Unleashes the souls of fallen enemies for damage”.
The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Shadow Fiend by any of “Shadow Fiend”, “Шэдоу Финд”, “sf” and “nevermore”.
Attribute, attack and roles
Shadow Fiend: Agility attribute, shared with 34 other heroes; ranged attack; Valve rates the complexity medium, 2 of 3.
Role dots from Valve: Nuker ●●●, Carry ●●○; full marks for Nuker.
In the ready layouts that means the “AGILITY” (7th of 35) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (42nd of 59) band of By complexity.
Positions and lanes
Shadow Fiend is carry (1) first of all, with mid at 0.43 as the fallback. All five scores (best = 1): carry 1 · mid 0.43 · offlane 0.01 · soft support 0 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Shadow Fiend in the “1 · CARRY” row and nowhere else.
| Position | Score |
|---|---|
| 1 · Carry | 1 |
| 2 · Mid | 0.43 |
| 3 · Offlane | 0.01 |
| 4 · Soft support | 0 |
| 5 · Hard support | 0 |
Where the scores come from: in 3,432 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Shadow Fiend went safe lane 73% of the time, mid 26% and offlane 1%. Median gold per minute is 562 — core-level gold on the site's scale (540 and up); experience per minute is 761.
Where to put the hero in your grid
In Classic: positions 1–5 Shadow Fiend sits in the “1 · CARRY” row, 6th portrait of 18.
Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Shadow Fiend: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “CORES”, 6th of 44.
With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Shadow Fiend, then Luna, Gyrocopter and Morphling, because all three share the same main position (carry), the same attribute and ranged attack.
The file goes into your Steam folder, 570 → remote → cfg of your account, with Dota closed — step by step in the install guide.
OpenDota stats, 23 Sept 2026
Win rate 42.4% for Shadow Fiend (127th of 127) over 673,983 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 13th.
Results drop with rank by 3.6 points: 44.2% at Herald–Crusader against 40.6% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Shadow Fiend more than usual at Herald (+13%) and less at Divine (−12%).
| Rank | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|
| Herald | 20,728 | 44.6% |
| Guardian | 64,665 | 44.3% |
| Crusader | 111,327 | 44.1% |
| Archon | 153,952 | 42.8% |
| Legend | 158,614 | 41.6% |
| Ancient | 100,497 | 40.9% |
| Divine | 64,200 | 40.2% |
Shadow Fiend in the snapshot's pro matches: 11 picks, 3 wins, 10 bans. Turbo: 467,314 games at 44.4%, about the same as in ranked brackets.
Skin and dot drawing
Main in a skin has the Demon Eater arcana for Shadow Fiend: 8 ready dot drawings, from 1,433 to 3,221 of the grid's 4000 slots.
Ready grid with this drawing: Shadow Fiend · zxc / dead inside — 1,798 drawing symbols and all 127 heroes.
The Like the best section has a Shadow Fiend grid called Nevermore: Shadow Fiend in the Demon Eater arcana as an outline: fiery crown, wing-horns, claws. Heroes by attribute in chain frames.
Questions and answers
What position is Shadow Fiend?
By the site's scores — carry (1); scores are carry 1 · mid 0.43 · offlane 0.01 · soft support 0 · hard support 0, and Pick by stats puts a hero into a row from 0.5.