Arc Warden — hero grid for mains

Every Dota client, Russian included, shows the name Arc Warden. In chat Arc Warden also goes by “arc”. On Russian servers you will hear “Арк Варден” (or “арк”, “варден” and “зет”).

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Creates a copy of himself to split push”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Arc Warden by any of “Arc Warden”, “Арк Варден” and “arc”.

A ranged Universal hero — one of 22 — Arc Warden gets 3 of 3 on Valve's complexity scale, one of only 13 heroes at the top level.

Valve's roles for Arc Warden, rated 1 to 3: Carry ●●●, Escape ●●●, Nuker ●○○ — maxed out: Carry and Escape.

By attributes puts Arc Warden in the “UNIVERSAL” (18th of 22) block; By complexity — in the “HARD” (1st of 13) band.

One position only for Arc Warden: mid (2), with the next best score at just 0.13. The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0.13 · mid 1 · offlane 0.01 · soft support 0 · hard support 0, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “2 · MID” row only.

Lanes over 362 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 13%, mid 85%, off 2%. Median GPM 720, XPM 776 — core-level gold on the site's scale (540 and up).

In Classic: positions 1–5 Arc Warden sits in the “2 · MID” row, 13th portrait of 18.

Arc Warden in other layouts: Meta by stats — “MID”, 2nd of 10; Two columns — “CORES”, 29th of 44.

With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Arc Warden, then Death Prophet, Void Spirit and Pangolier, because all three share the same main position (mid) and the same attribute.

To get the grid into the game, press “Download grid” and, with Dota closed, put hero_grid_config.json into Steam → userdata → account number → 570 → remote → cfg — details in how to install a hero grid.

Win rate 52.3% for Arc Warden (14th of 127) over 200,355 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 81st.

Rank barely changes the picture: 51.7% at Herald–Crusader and 53.0% at Ancient–Divine. Arc Warden's share of games is 12% above its average at Crusader and 13% below at Divine.

Arc Warden in the snapshot's pro matches: 1 pick, 1 win, 1 ban. Turbo: 101,286 games at 48.0%, worse than in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin covers arcanas and personas only, and Arc Warden has none there yet; to draw the hero anyway, upload any art to Picture to dots. Among the heroes with skins that are also played as mid, the closest to Arc Warden are Queen of Pain, Invoker and Lina — their dot drawings are ready for a mid grid.