Clinkz — hero grid for mains

Clinkz is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Клинкз” (or “клинк”, “клинкс” and “клинц”). There is no common English short name for Clinkz in the site's dictionary.

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Stalks invisibly to ambush lone enemies”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Clinkz by either “Clinkz” or “Клинкз”.

Clinkz: Agility attribute, shared with 34 other heroes; ranged attack; Valve rates the complexity medium, 2 of 3.

Role dots from Valve: Escape ●●●, Carry ●●○, Pusher ●○○; full marks for Escape.

In the ready layouts that means the “AGILITY” (18th of 35) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (6th of 59) band of By complexity.

Clinkz is carry (1) first of all, with mid at 0.32 as the fallback. All five scores (best = 1): carry 1 · mid 0.32 · offlane 0.03 · soft support 0 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Clinkz in the “1 · CARRY” row and nowhere else.

Where the scores come from: in 679 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Clinkz went safe lane 76% of the time, mid 20% and offlane 4%. Median gold per minute is 556 — core-level gold on the site's scale (540 and up); experience per minute is 761.

Clinkz is not in Classic: positions 1–5, which holds the 18 most popular heroes per position, but each row fits 20 portraits — add Clinkz to the “1 · CARRY” row with “+ Hero” and the portraits keep their size.

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Clinkz: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); not in Two columns (44 cores and 44 supports).

With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Clinkz, then Templar Assassin, Weaver and Lone Druid, because all three share the same main position (carry), the same attribute and ranged 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 49.8% for Clinkz (61st of 127) over 198,910 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 82nd.

Low (49.2%) and high (50.9%) brackets differ by less than two points. Players pick Clinkz more than usual at Herald (+88%) and less at Ancient (−22%).

Clinkz in the snapshot's pro matches: 9 picks, 4 wins, 6 bans. Turbo: 193,772 games at 50.5%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Clinkz yet, but any art or screenshot of the hero turns into dots in Picture to dots. Among the heroes with skins that are also played as carry, the closest to Clinkz are Drow Ranger, Juggernaut and Shadow Fiend — their dot drawings are ready for a carry grid.