Ancient Apparition — hero grid for mains

Every Dota client, Russian included, shows the name Ancient Apparition. In chat Ancient Apparition also goes by “aa”. On Russian servers you will hear “Эншент Аппарейшн” (or “аа”, “апарат” and “аппарат”).

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Launches a powerful icy blast from anywhere on the map”.

Search in the hero picker is forgiving: “Ancient Apparition”, “Эншент Аппарейшн”, “aa” — each of them lands on Ancient Apparition.

A ranged Intelligence hero — one of 34 — Ancient Apparition gets 2 of 3 on Valve's complexity scale.

Valve's roles for Ancient Apparition, rated 1 to 3: Support ●●○, Nuker ●○○, Disabler ●○○; none reaches the full three dots.

By attributes puts Ancient Apparition in the “INTELLIGENCE” (20th of 34) block; By complexity — in the “MEDIUM” (1st of 59) band.

Two positions for Ancient Apparition: hard support (5) first, soft support (4) second, both with a score of 0.5 or more (1 and 0.56). The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0 · mid 0.04 · offlane 0 · soft support 0.56 · hard support 1, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “5 · HARD SUPPORT” and “4 · SUPPORT” rows only.

Lanes over 633 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 61%, mid 7%, off 32%. Median GPM 347, XPM 543 — pure support gold on the site's scale (360 or less).

For a layout by role, take Classic: positions 1–5: Ancient Apparition is already there, 9th of 18 in “5 · HARD SUPPORT”.

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Ancient Apparition: Meta by stats — “HARD SUPPORT”, 4th of 10; Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 16th of 44.

With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Ancient Apparition, then Ringmaster, Shadow Shaman and Silencer, because all three share the same main position (hard support), 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.

In the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026 Ancient Apparition shows up in 289,179 games (58th most played of 127) and wins 51.5% of them (30th).

Low (52.2%) and high (50.5%) brackets differ by less than two points. Ancient Apparition's share of games is 7% above its average at Archon and 26% below at Divine.

Ancient Apparition in the snapshot's pro matches: 4 picks, 4 wins, 0 bans. Turbo: 184,914 games at 52.8%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

For a grid with an Ancient Apparition portrait, bring your own art: Picture to dots draws it in dots right on the field. Among the heroes with skins that are also played as hard support, the closest to Ancient Apparition are Crystal Maiden, Vengeful Spirit and Ogre Magi — their dot drawings are ready for a hard support grid.