Centaur Warrunner — hero grid for mains

Every Dota client, Russian included, shows the name Centaur Warrunner. In chat Centaur Warrunner also goes by “cent”. Internally, in the game files, Centaur Warrunner is “centaur” — search on the site finds the hero by it as well. On Russian servers you will hear “Кентавр” (or “цент”, “сента” and “центавр”).

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Reflects damage back to his attackers”.

Search in the hero picker is forgiving: “Centaur Warrunner”, “Кентавр”, “cent”, “centaur” — each of them lands on Centaur Warrunner.

Centaur Warrunner is a Strength hero (36 of them in the game), melee, complexity 1 of 3 by Valve's rating, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

Valve's roles for Centaur Warrunner, rated 1 to 3: Durable ●●●, Initiator ●●●, Nuker ●○○, Disabler ●○○, Escape ●○○ — maxed out: Durable and Initiator.

By attributes puts Centaur Warrunner in the “STRENGTH” (24th of 36) block; By complexity — in the “EASY” (8th of 55) band. Centaur Warrunner is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “3 · OFFLANE”, 7th of 12.

The main position for Centaur Warrunner is offlane (3); less often the hero shows up as soft support (score 0.38). The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0.02 · mid 0.06 · offlane 1 · soft support 0.38 · hard support 0, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “3 · OFFLANE” row only.

Median gold per minute for Centaur Warrunner is 491, experience 689 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.33 by the site's formula; by lane, 2,011 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026 split 2% safe, 6% mid and 92% off.

For a layout by role, take Classic: positions 1–5: Centaur Warrunner is already there, 7th of 18 in “3 · OFFLANE”.

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Centaur Warrunner: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “CORES”, 37th of 44.

For a main, the handiest layout is Mains + situational: the button above puts Centaur Warrunner first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Tidehunter, Legion Commander and Night Stalker: all three share the same main position (offlane), the same attribute and melee attack.

Then it is “Download grid” and hero_grid_config.json into Steam\userdata\<number>\570\remote\cfg while Dota is closed; load your current file in the “Your grid is ready” window and your old grids stay (install guide).

Win rate 49.3% for Centaur Warrunner (75th of 127) over 300,215 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 55th.

Higher brackets play Centaur Warrunner worse: 48.1% at Ancient–Divine after 50.5% at Herald–Crusader. Centaur Warrunner's share of games is 10% above its average at Legend and 35% below at Herald.

Centaur Warrunner in the snapshot's pro matches: 18 picks, 10 wins, 16 bans. Turbo: 112,880 games at 53.5%, noticeably better than in ranked brackets.

For a grid with a Centaur Warrunner 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 offlane, the closest to Centaur Warrunner are Legion Commander, Wraith King and Earthshaker — their dot drawings are ready for an offlane grid.