Hero Matchups

Dragon Knight

Razor

Viper

Templar Assassin

Ember Spirit

Puck

Storm Spirit

Windrunner

Lina

Queen of Pain

Leshrac

Please note that I haven't played every matchup possible for SF, and I won't be going into great detail on the finer details of mid laning. If you're looking for that I recommend ChaQ's guide to solo mid, it helped me alot with playing SF and is one of the best guides I have ever read.SF favoured, he is melee and you are ranged, during the early waves you might have trouble csing due the breath fire, but once you get your souls up he should be forced to bottle crow and use his nuke to get cs. It's unlikely you kill him unless he gets incredibly out of position, just dont leave your lane for too long or he will quickly take your tower, luckily your razes are more than enough to stop his push.You really shouldn't be winning this matchup, you will have your damage drained and will be forced away from creeps early. Just get your levels in raze and last hit with that, from there you can stack and begin to outfarm the razor.This hero is a lane dominator, you will not win this lane unless you massively outskill the viper. You should play this the same way that you would against Razor, get your levels, and outfarm him.If you're picking SF alot eventually somebody is going to pick this to try and beat you in lane. TA is one of the best heroes to beat an SF in my opinion, she can destroy him in lane and is able to snowball to a win. She is also one of the few heroes in the game that can keep up to him in farming speed with ancient stacks. Luckily for you she does not have much of a hp pool and can die very quickly to razes if she does not have refraction up, and if you get ahead in souls her extra damage shouldn't be much of a problem.TA has a very low attack range, so you should be able to stay on your high ground, try to not take too much damage from psi blades and work on getting her refraction down. Try to get a double wave, if you can do this she won't be able to be aggresive on you because she will lose her refraction instantly, and if she has no refraction you can raze her! I would not recommend going for runes once she hits level 6, as it will be very easy for her to kill you without creeps nearby, you should aim to not die, and once you are level 5 with 3 points in raze you can get a kill if she is out of position.This is one of the easier matchups for SF and you should be able to stomp, embers spells are terrible at the early levels so neither of you should be able to kill eachother early, and as a melee hero if he turns on flame guard to get aggresive he should quickly lose it to a double raze. Without flame guard ember will die quickly to you, so push him away from the wave, he has low armour and wont be able to stay in lane long if you harass him. I haven't played puck vs SF apart from a few times in 1v1s, so I'm not sure if what I say here is very reliable. In the early laning phase puck should be able to push you away from the creeps, but she can't keep you from csing once you get level 2. You should aim to get your souls up as always and from there just take over the lane, just be careful to not get in a bad spot, puck will kill you very quickly if you are out of position, but you can do the same to her, if you are level 5 and she uses orb to farm, try and get a quick double raze. This is probably the matchup I've played the most this patch, and I feel it is a very even matchup, maybe 60/40 in favour of SF, but it is one that can be lost very easily. Storm has high base armour and a strong nuke at level 1, you wont be able to fight him if he presses up on you. You need to get your levels, once you have your levels in raze and your souls you should be able to win fairly easily, he has low range so if you just move forward slightly you can double raze him. Just be careful to not get too close, he can kill you very easily. You might want to get a point in your ult at 6, just so you can deter him if he decides to zip on you.She has higher range than you and more base damage, she will harass you early so you need to play safe, but she also has low hp, so she is definately killable, just dont try get into a right click war with her if she has windrun up. After lane you should be able to outfarm her.One of the harder matchups for SF, she can harass you so easily and can nuke you down quickly. She's squishy but she is almost never in range for razes, your best bet is to trade farm, just be careful once she gets her euls, at that point she can kill you quickly. You will struggle early, you will need to get a salve early, and you should avoid dying. There are multiple danger points against queen of pain, when she is level 4 with full hp and if you are level 3 with few souls she can blink on you and quickly kill you, you should try to bottle crow as much as possible to keep your hp and spam razes on her to keep her low enough that if she blinks on you she could die. Once you get level 5 things change a bit, her dagger at level has a range of 450, and your 2nd raze also has 450 range. This means that if she ever tries to dagger you she will be in range for a double raze, 375 damage on a hero with a hp pool of around 600 will mean she has to stay away. Once she hits level 6 you should play a bit more careful, pick up a wand and you can try bait her with wand charges, if she can't burst you quickly and you have razes you can turn her dive around. Once you are level 7 the lane should become alot easier, she wont be able to dagger you without eating 480 damage.The balanced disco goat, infamous for being impossible to lane against. Well luckily you are a shadow fiend, who can catchup and even land a kill on this guy if you outplay him. You're going to need a wand, and you shouldn't expect to win this lane heavily, but he has low damage and you can play the last hit war against him, you should bottle crow for his matchup, you're most likely going to get run down by him if you go for runes. Lesh has a low hp pool, so if you see him out of mana just walk up onto his high ground and stay there, if he tries to right click you hit him, you have the damage advantage, and if he gets in range a quick double raze should keep him under tower. Of course none of this matters if he has mana, so if he is keeping his mana topped off just push the lane and stack your jungle.