Brewmaster — hero grid for mains

Every Dota client, Russian included, shows the name Brewmaster. In chat Brewmaster also goes by “brew”. On Russian servers you will hear “Брюмастер” (or “брю” and “панда”).

Valve's one-line description from the hero list: “Splits into four elemental spirits with unique abilities”.

In the editor's hero picker, typing “Brewmaster” or “Брюмастер” or “brew” brings up Brewmaster.

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

Valve's roles for Brewmaster, rated 1 to 3: Initiator ●●●, Disabler ●●○, Durable ●●○, Carry ●○○, Nuker ●○○ — maxed out: Initiator.

By attributes puts Brewmaster in the “UNIVERSAL” (11th of 22) block; By complexity — in the “HARD” (2nd of 13) band.

One position only for Brewmaster: offlane (3), with the next best score at just 0.18. The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0.05 · mid 0.10 · offlane 1 · soft support 0.18 · hard support 0, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “3 · OFFLANE” row only.

Lanes over 534 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 4%, mid 8%, off 87%. Median GPM 499, XPM 723 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.17 by the site's formula.

The rows of Classic: positions 1–5 hold the 18 most played heroes each and Brewmaster is not among them; there are two free slots per row, so drop the hero into “3 · OFFLANE” yourself.

Brewmaster in other layouts: Meta by stats — “OFFLANE”, 9th of 10; not in Two columns (44 cores and 44 supports).

With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Brewmaster, then Beastmaster, Night Stalker and Legion Commander, because all three share the same main position (offlane) and melee attack.

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 51.2% for Brewmaster (34th of 127) over 74,254 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 119th.

Results climb with rank, from 49.8% at Herald–Crusader to 52.4% at Ancient–Divine. Brewmaster's share of games is 57% above its average at Divine and 18% below at Guardian.

Brewmaster in the snapshot's pro matches: 8 picks, 6 wins, 4 bans. Turbo: 31,539 games at 47.8%, worse than in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin covers arcanas and personas only, and Brewmaster 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 offlane, the closest to Brewmaster are Legion Commander, Wraith King and Razor — their dot drawings are ready for an offlane grid.