Shadow Fiend/Counters

Bad against...

 * and allow Axe to kill Shadow Fiend if he stands too close to a creep wave.
 * is very strong against Shadow Fiend in the early game because Shadow Fiend's low attack damage makes it hard for him to get last hits.
 * 's naturally high strength and health regeneration will be enough to tank a lot of Shadow Fiend's damage in the early game.


 * can be used to decrease Shadow Fiend's already abysmal level one damage even further, preventing him from getting farm and Necromastery stacks.
 * allows Bane to heavily harass Shadow Fiend.
 * allows Bane to set up some early ganks onto Shadow Fiend.
 * enables Bane to completely take Shadow Fiend out of a fight and potentially even kill him, even through.


 * can be used to cancel Requiem of Souls.
 * and allow Bounty Hunter to gank Shadow Fiend early on
 * prevents Shadow Fiend from escaping with.


 * and allows Disruptor to set up some early kills onto Shadow Fiend.
 * can be used to cancel the cast of Requiem of Souls.


 * Doom has several disable abilities to choose from jungle creeps, e.g., , to deal with Shadow Fiend who lacks escape abilities.
 * When Doom combines creep abilities with, , , Shadow Fiend most likely will die as he cannot use Shadowraze and Requiem of Souls to protect himself, and also cannot even flee by using or.
 * Although Shadow Fiend has high physical damage output, Doom still has large health pool to survive it, meaning Doom's combo with high magical damage output will shutdown Shadow Fiend first.
 * Doom usually buy to improve his burning damage, making his nuke combo more deadly to Shadow Fiend.


 * can be used to cancel Requiem of Souls.
 * Dragon Knight usually builds to break Shadow Fiend passives and allowing to chase Shadow Fiend in 's with some attacks, either Shadow Fiend activates Black King Bar is fairly usless against him.
 * is naturally high strength and health regeneration will be enough to tank a lot of Shadow Fiend's damage in the game.


 * can be used to cancel Requiem of Souls.
 * With and, Night Stalker can find and kill Shadow Fiend during invisibility from  and he is tanky hero to fight Shadow Fiend any stage of the game.
 * Night Stalker usually buys preventing Shadow Fiend using items.


 * prevents Shadow Fiend from attacking for its duration, potentially preventing him from getting a kill.
 * can do heavy damage to Shadow Fiend if he tries to cast his Requiem of Souls and his keeps spamming Shadowrazes.


 * can be used to cancel Shadow Fiend's from a huge range.
 * and allow Sniper to harass Shadow Fiend in lane without getting into the range of his Shadowrazes.


 * allows Spirit Breaker to gank Shadow Fiend in the early game, preventing him from getting Necromastery stacks.
 * and can be used to prevent Shadow Fiend from casting Requiem of Souls.


 * allows to swap Shadow Fiend's health during Requiem of Souls when Terrorblade is target.
 * and with Illusions can kill Shadow Fiend quickly.


 * The blind from prevents Shadow Fiend from attacking for its duration, potentially preventing him from getting a kill.
 * As (core item for Tinker) can be used to prevent Shadow Fiend from casting Requiem of Souls and he is not protected by.
 * A combination of Tinker's abilities and his items like ( and combo) can kill Shadow Fiend quickly.


 * prevents Shadow Fiend from escaping after Ursa used his to get on top of him.
 * and allow Ursa to quickly kill Shadow Fiend.
 * keeps Ursa alive in a man fight with Shadow Fiend and allows him to stay close even if Shadow Fiend uses Requiem of Souls.


 * breakes both Necromastery and Presence of the Dark Lord.
 * gives Viper bonus Magic Resistance against Shadowraze.


 * allows Zeus to get farm in lane against Shadow Fiend without coming into the range of his Shadowrazes.
 * can be used to heavily harass Shadow Fiend when he tries to get a last hit.
 * and can be used to detect Shadow Fiend if he tries to escape with.

Others

 * Heroes that can gank Shadow Fiend in the early game (,, , , …)
 * Heroes with high burst damage (,, , , , …)
 * Heroes that are hard to kill without lockdown (, {{{H|Weaver}}, …)
 * Heroes with channeling spells because Shadow Fiend has nothing to cancel channeling, however, they can be easily caught off guard by Shadow Fiend's initiations.

Items

 * interrupts Requiem of Souls.
 * and interrupt Requiem of Souls and silences Shadow Fiend.
 * and interrupt Requiem of Souls and disables Shadow Fiend.
 * prevents Shadow Fiend from using his items like Black King Bar and Shadow Blade in fights.
 * mitigates Presence of the Dark Lord and Shadow Fiend's high physical damage.

Good against...

 * Shadow Fiend usually buys a allowing him to easily escape from.
 * Shadow Fiend can farm Clockwerk's to gain Necromastery stacks.


 * Shadow Fiend can easily focus down and kill one of the Meepos.
 * The amount of damage from Shadow Fiend's AoE spells makes Meepo vulnerable in every aspect.


 * Shadow Fiend can easily farm his treants and get easy Necromastery Stacks.
 * If Shadow Fiend buys and, he can counteract Nature's Prophet's split-push.


 * Shadow Fiend is mostly played as right-click carry and natural carrier, making Silencer's spells very ineffective against him.


 * does not protect Slark from Shadow Fiend's AoE spells.

Others

 * Heroes with a low health pool (, etc)

Works well with...

 * and are very long duration disables and perfect setups for Shadow Fiend's magical and physical damage.


 * can be denied at the beginning of the game for Necromastery stacks.
 * also makes it easy to land Shadow Razes on trapped enemies.


 * pulls enemy heroes into its center making perfect setup for Requiem of Souls.


 * gives Shadow Fiend extra attack speed greatly increasing his damage output.
 * can dispel a disable from Shadow Fiend.
 * is a great setup for Requiem of Souls.


 * into is a perfect setup for Requiem of Souls.
 * gives bonus damage to Shadow Fiend as well.


 * s armor reduction synergies well with Presence of the Dark Lord and Shadow Fiend's high physical damage.
 * can set up Requiem of Souls.


 * s armor reduction synergies well with Presence of the Dark Lord and Shadow Fiend's high physical damage.
 * can save Shadow Fiend if he gets caught out.
 * can setup for Requiem of Souls.

Others

 * Heroes with abilities that can set up Requiem of Souls (,, , …)
 * Heroes that give Shadow Fiend extra attack speed (,, , …)
 * Heroes that can keep Shadow Fiend alive and fighting (,, …)

List of heroes that counter Shadow Fiend, and list of heroes that work well with Shadow Fiend.

Shadow Fiend/Противостоящие 影魔/克制