Shadow Fiend Basics Skills,Story and Allies

Introduction
Nevermore is considered a very powerful hero with the nuking powers of a early gamer and the DPS of a lategamer, when used properly, nevermore could 1 hit ko most paper heroes with Requiem of Souls.

PlayDota Nevermore Hero introduction
Shadow Fiend's only defense lies in his superb offense. After each life he takes, he traps their soul to empower his attack damage with Necromastery. This allows him to amass high attack damage. His ultimate Requiem of Souls can summon these souls out to inflict great damage and slow anyone close to Nevermore. His unique Shadowraze allows him to blast opponents in small areas, at three separate distances. The Presence of the Dark Lord also makes enemies vulnerable to physical damage, passively reducing their armor. Deadly from a number of distances, and vulnerable if caught off guard, Nevermore's positioning in battle is of utmost importance.

Nevermore's Story
A demon of the burning legion so abhorred that he makes the skin of even his fellow demons crawl, Nevermore is a creature of the shadows that consumes the souls of those around him. When the Shadow Fiend comes forth to battle, he augments his power with the souls he has consumed, bearing down on his enemies with spiritually enhanced attacks and powerful spiritual blasts. The Shadow Fiend is a terrifying opponent whom few have survived, and those who have perished under his tyranny have faced the most despicable fate of all.
Sounds rather scary heh !

Pros and Cons

Pros
-Destroys any lane easily
-Super farming capability
-Ultimate which could deal upto 2400 damage.
-Capable of having up to + 60 damage at level 8
-Quite high stat growth per level
Cons
-Dying is very irratating to shadow fiend as he loses his souls
-Weak base damage, almost as low as techies
-Very low starting stats 
-Could not gank people easily due to lack of disables
-Low base armor for a agility hero

Shadow fiend has pretty many Pros and Cons, when played properly, you could ignore most of the cons.


Strength:15 + 2



Agility: 20 + 2.4





Intelligence 18 + 2

Well, just look at his stats, 15 Str ? Well, luckily he had a pretty good strength and agility growth compared to some agility heroes.

Advanced Statistics
Affiliation: Scourge
Damage: 35-41
Armour: 1.9
Movespeed: 300
Attack range: 500
Attack animation: 0.5 / 0.54
Casting animation: 0.67 / 0.4
Base attack time: 1.7
Missile speed: 1200
Sight range: 1800 / 800

ShadowRaze

Gives the Shadow Fiend the power to desecrate regions in front of him at varying distances. 

Ability Hotkey: Z(200 range), X(450 range), C(700 range)

This is shadow fiend main nuke, a 3 in 1 nuke having separated cooldown means, you could use each of them at different times.
Upon maxing shadowraze, you could use two raze (x) and (z) to clear a entire creepwave when aimed properly. During early game, it hurts alot to some pretty good lane controllers like viper, etc. Shadowrazes could be canceled before Shadow fiend does the casting animation, which is Shadow Fiend raising up his hands. Before that hit the S(stop) button. Even though shadow raze is only 75 mana. Do not spam it too often unless you have a bottle.

Necromancy

Ability type: Passive
Whenever the Shadow Fiend kills a target, he stores the unfortunate soul inside of him. For each stored soul he gains 2 bonus damage until his own death releases half of them from bondage.

Presence of the DarkLord

Ability type: Passive
The presence of such a horrible creature terrifies nearby enemies, reducing their armor.

Requiem of Souls

Ability Type: Active
Summons evil spirits around you dealing damage to units in the area. Number of spirits is related to the number of souls stored and the movement/damage reduction is related to the distance from the Shadow Fiend. Lowers movement speed and damage of nearby units. The closer the units are the greater the effect.

Good Allies and Enemies 

 Darkseer, though getting nerf, still is one of shadowfiend's best allies, a well placed vacuum is just instant death for every enemy combined with Requiem of Souls.

Murloc nightcrawler, though a new hero, i believe he could help shadow fiend greatly with his pounce, the enemy moving range is only 325 AOE leash range. Meaning if you stand in the middle, no matter what, you are capable of dealing high amounts of damage with requiem of souls.

Nothing much to say about enigma, midnight pulse + blackhole, + requiem of souls is just one hit ko. After murdering the enemy proceed to take their Tree/Throne.

Same like enigma, but due to Bane being a single targeter, requiem of souls is rather unneeded, if he uses fiend's grip on the enemy, just use shadowraze (z),(x), and (c).

Final words
Shadow fiend requires precise skills to be played well, though i am just above average shadowfiend player, there a very good shadowfiend out there like YameteH, etc etc. Have fun reading my guide and playing shadowfiend, dun get frustrated if you die. Just keep trying and practice !

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