Dark Seer — hero grid for mains

Dark Seer is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Дарк Сир” (or “дс” and “сир”). In chat Dark Seer also goes by “ds”.

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Pulls and manipulates his enemies' positions”.

In the editor's hero picker, typing “Dark Seer” or “Дарк Сир” or “ds” brings up Dark Seer.

Dark Seer is an Intelligence hero (34 of them in the game), melee, complexity 1 of 3 by Valve's rating, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

Valve's roles for Dark Seer, rated 1 to 3: Disabler ●○○, Escape ●○○, Initiator ●○○; none reaches the full three dots.

By attributes puts Dark Seer in the “INTELLIGENCE” (16th of 34) block; By complexity — in the “EASY” (11th of 55) band. Dark Seer is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “3 · OFFLANE”, 11th of 12.

No doubt about the role: Dark Seer is offlane (3), and the best of the other positions scores 0.29. The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0.02 · mid 0.07 · offlane 1 · soft support 0.29 · hard support 0, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “3 · OFFLANE” row only.

Median gold per minute for Dark Seer is 525, experience 685 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.19 by the site's formula; by lane, 1,757 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026 split 1% safe, 4% mid and 94% off.

For a layout by role, take Classic: positions 1–5: Dark Seer is already there, 11th of 18 in “3 · OFFLANE”.

Dark Seer in other layouts: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “CORES”, 41st of 44.

The “Make a grid with Dark Seer” button opens Mains + situational with Dark Seer first in the MAINS block, followed by Centaur Warrunner, Slardar and Mars — all three share the same main position (offlane) and melee attack.

The file goes into your Steam folder, 570 → remote → cfg of your account, with Dota closed — step by step in the install guide.

In the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026 Dark Seer shows up in 232,019 games (70th most played of 127) and wins 49.4% of them (71st).

The win rate is flat across brackets — 48.5% low, 50.5% high. Dark Seer's share of games is 77% above its average at Divine and 36% below at Herald.

Pros ban Dark Seer more often than they pick the hero: 45 bans against 24 picks (6 wins) in the snapshot. Turbo: 118,709 games at 53.0%, noticeably better than in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Dark Seer 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 offlane, the closest to Dark Seer are Legion Commander, Wraith King and Razor — their dot drawings are ready for an offlane grid.