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Shadow Fiend · Carry (pos. 1)

Shadow Fiend in Turbo

TurboData-drivenMediumPatch 7.41
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This guide is assembled by the site from match data and the game's own information — nobody wrote it by hand. Official and community guides appear alongside it when they exist.

Overview

Turbo is regular Dota sped up: more gold and experience, faster respawns and a quicker courier. Games are shorter, so early fights matter more and the late game comes sooner. Turbo speeds everything up — more gold, faster respawns — so skip the long farming phase, rush Manta Style and join fights much earlier than in a normal match.

Strengths

  • Reliable fear: Requiem of Souls sets up kills.
  • Heavy magical burst: Valve lists it as a Nuker.
  • Scales into a late-game threat as the items come in.

Weaknesses

  • No escape in the kit: without good positioning and vision, Shadow Fiend is easy to catch.
  • Low base armor (0): vulnerable to physical harass early on.

Build cheat sheet

Pick the build that fits what you want to do this game.

Builds

Turbo build

OffensiveTurbo
Open build

When to use it

Turbo gives more gold and faster respawns: skip most laning items and go straight for your core, then the damage items.

Where it's played

Picked before the game: the main lane first, then the alternatives.

Seen from RadiantRadiant · bottom leftDire · top right
  1. Safe laneMain63% of matchesSafe lane as the farming core (pos. 1).
  2. MidPriority 236% of matchesMid lane, one against one (pos. 2).

Starting items

Faerie FireIron BranchMagic Wand

Core items

  1. 1Manta Style
  2. 2Mask of Madness
  3. 3Force Staff
  4. 4Hurricane Pike

Boots

Power Treads

Late game

Yasha and KayaButterflyMonkey King Bar

Skill order

Max order:Shadowraze›Presence of t…›Feast of Souls

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Talents by level

  1. Feast of Souls Grants +30% Cast Speed
    Shadowraze Applies Attack Damage
    25
  2. +5 Necromastery Max Souls
    +0.2s Requiem Fear per line
    20
  3. +1.5 Presence Armor Reduction
    +2 Feast of Souls Souls Collected Per Hero
    15
  4. +30 Feast of Souls Attack Speed
    +30 Shadowraze Stack Damage
    10

Abilities

  • Shadowraze9s75 mpShadow Fiend razes the ground directly in front of him, dealing damage to enemy units in the area, dealing bonus damage based on his current Necromastery Soul amount. Adds a stacking damage amplifier on the target that causes the enemy to take bonus Shadowraze damage per stack.
    Base damage
    85·150·215·280
    Range
    200
    Bonus per stack
    35·50·65·80
    Stack duration
    6
    Bonus damage per soul
    2
  • Shadowraze9s75 mpShadow Fiend razes the ground a short distance away from him, dealing damage to enemy units in the area, dealing bonus damage based on his current Necromastery Soul amount. Adds a stacking damage amplifier on the target that causes the enemy to take bonus Shadowraze damage per stack.
    Base damage
    85·150·215·280
    Range
    450
    Bonus per stack
    35·50·65·80
    Stack duration
    6
    Bonus damage per soul
    2
  • Shadowraze9s75 mpShadow Fiend razes the ground a longer distance away from him, dealing damage to enemy units in the area, dealing bonus damage based on his current Necromastery Soul amount. Adds a stacking damage amplifier on the target that causes the enemy to take bonus Shadowraze damage per stack.
    Base damage
    85·150·215·280
    Range
    700
    Bonus per stack
    35·50·65·80
    Stack duration
    6
    Bonus damage per soul
    2
  • Feast of Souls21s60 / 65 / 70 / 75 mpShadow Fiend gains Bonus Movement and Attack Speed for 8 seconds. For the duration of the effect, every 0.5s he collects souls from 2 enemies in a 600 radius. After the effect is over, he loses the souls whose owners are still alive, retaining the rest for 8s, after which souls that are over the Necromastery max stack count are also lost. Can only collect souls once from each individual enemy.
    Bonus attack speed
    35·50·65·80
    Bonus move speed
    4%·6%·8%·10%
    Max collection targets
    4·6·8·10
    Souls per hero
    3
    Souls per creep
    1
  • Presence of the Dark LordPassiveShadow Fiend's presence reduces the armor of nearby enemies.
    Armor reduction
    -2.5·-4·-5.5·-7
    Radius
    1200
    Reduction per hero
    0
    Hero reduction duration
    0
  • Requiem of Souls120 / 110 / 100s150 / 175 / 200 mpShadow Fiend gathers up to 20 of his captured souls to release them as lines of demonic energy. Units near Shadow Fiend when the souls are released can be damaged by several lines of energy. Any unit damaged by Requiem of Souls will be feared and have its movement speed and magic resistance reduced for 0.6 seconds for each line hit up to a maximum of 2.15. Lines of energy are created for every sou
    Movement reduction
    -20%·-25%·-30%
    Magic resist reduction
    -5%·-10%·-15%
    Fear duration per soul hit
    0.6
    Fear duration max
    2.15
    Cast delay
    1.67
    Ultimate — applies a fear. Use it on the target your team can kill.
  • NecromasteryPassiveShadow Fiend steals the soul from units he kills, gaining 1 bonus damage per soul. Hero kills grant 4 souls. On death, he releases 30% of them from bondage.
    Damage per soul
    1
    Base max souls
    20

Most played skill order

The most played order in the last 100 professional matches with this hero. Highlighted levels are the points spent on talents.

Max order:Shadowraze›Presence of t…›Feast of Souls

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Strategy

1What changes

Turbo is regular Dota sped up: more gold and experience, faster respawns and a quicker courier. Games are shorter, so early fights matter more and the late game comes sooner.

2Build adjustments

Turbo gives more gold and faster respawns: skip most laning items and go straight for your core, then the damage items.

3Fighting

Walk in after the enemy has used their key disables and hit whatever you can reach safely: your survival is the fight. Turbo speeds everything up — more gold, faster respawns — so skip the long farming phase, rush Manta Style and join fights much earlier than in a normal match.

Tips

  • Turbo speeds everything up — more gold, faster respawns — so skip the long farming phase, rush Manta Style and join fights much earlier than in a normal match.
  • Use Requiem of Souls in every big fight: in this mode there's always another one coming.
  • Don't chase alone: the enemy is always grouped.
  • Buy your core items first: in Turbo you get them much earlier.

Changelog

  1. Guide created for patch 7.41.

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