Crystal Maiden — hero grid for mains
Crystal Maiden is an Intelligence hero, ranged, played as hard support (5), with a 51.7% win rate and 19th place by games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026. Below — a grid with Crystal Maiden in Mains and the hero's places in the site's layouts.
In-game name and nicknames
Crystal Maiden is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Кристал Мейден” (or “цм”, “кристалка” and “кристал”). Short names for Crystal Maiden you will see in chat: “cm”.
The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Unleashes a high damage blizzard upon her foes”.
Search in the hero picker is forgiving: “Crystal Maiden”, “Кристал Мейден”, “cm” — each of them lands on Crystal Maiden.
Attribute, attack and roles
Crystal Maiden is an Intelligence hero (34 of them in the game), ranged, complexity 1 of 3 by Valve's rating, one of the 55 easiest heroes.
Role dots from Valve: Support ●●●, Nuker ●●○, Disabler ●●○; full marks for Support.
In the ready layouts that means the “INTELLIGENCE” (1st of 34) block of By attributes and the “EASY” (10th of 55) band of By complexity. Crystal Maiden is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “5 · HARD SUPPORT”, 1st of 12.
Positions and lanes
No doubt about the role: Crystal Maiden is hard support (5), and the best of the other positions scores 0.27. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0 · mid 0.04 · offlane 0 · soft support 0.27 · hard support 1 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Crystal Maiden in the “5 · HARD SUPPORT” row and nowhere else.
| Position | Score |
|---|---|
| 1 · Carry | 0 |
| 2 · Mid | 0.04 |
| 3 · Offlane | 0 |
| 4 · Soft support | 0.27 |
| 5 · Hard support | 1 |
Lanes over 1,426 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 73%, mid 10%, off 17%. Median GPM 349, XPM 559 — pure support gold on the site's scale (360 or less).
Where to put the hero in your grid
In Classic: positions 1–5 Crystal Maiden sits in the “5 · HARD SUPPORT” row, 2nd portrait of 18.
Crystal Maiden in other layouts: Meta by stats — “HARD SUPPORT”, 3rd of 10; Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 3rd of 44.
With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Crystal Maiden, then Winter Wyvern, Witch Doctor and Oracle, because all three share the same main position (hard support), 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).
OpenDota stats, 23 Sept 2026
Win rate 51.7% for Crystal Maiden (24th of 127) over 588,786 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 19th.
Results drop with rank by 2.2 points: 52.9% at Herald–Crusader against 50.6% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Crystal Maiden more than usual at Herald (+19%) and less at Divine (−18%).
| Rank | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|
| Herald | 19,061 | 53.8% |
| Guardian | 62,251 | 53.2% |
| Crusader | 103,077 | 52.5% |
| Archon | 133,635 | 51.9% |
| Legend | 134,265 | 51.1% |
| Ancient | 83,836 | 50.9% |
| Divine | 52,661 | 50.3% |
Crystal Maiden in the snapshot's pro matches: 7 picks, 3 wins, 0 bans. Turbo: 291,048 games at 53.0%, about the same as in ranked brackets.
Skin and dot drawing
Main in a skin has the Frost Avalanche arcana and the Conduit of the Blueheart persona for Crystal Maiden: 16 ready dot drawings, from 1,927 to 3,892 of the grid's 4000 slots.
Ready grid with this drawing: Crystal Maiden · Frost Avalanche — 1,026 drawing symbols and all 127 heroes.
The Like the best section has a grid called Crystal Maiden: Rylai in the Frost Avalanche arcana: a hood and an ice staff. Two attribute columns on each side.
Questions and answers
What is Crystal Maiden's win rate?
51.7% over 588,786 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026 (Herald to Divine); Pick by stats in the editor loads fresh numbers.