Dark Willow — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Dark Willow — the same in the English and the Russian client. Short names for Dark Willow you will see in chat: “willow”. Russian-speaking players say “Дарк Уиллоу” (or “вилоу”, “уиллоу” and “виллоу”).

Valve's one-line description from the hero list: “Has an arsenal of disables at her disposal”.

Search in the hero picker is forgiving: “Dark Willow”, “Дарк Уиллоу”, “willow” — each of them lands on Dark Willow.

Dark Willow: Intelligence attribute, shared with 33 other heroes; ranged attack; Valve rates the complexity medium, 2 of 3.

Role dots from Valve: Support ●●○, Nuker ●●○, Escape ●●○, Disabler ●○○ — no role at the full three.

In the ready layouts that means the “INTELLIGENCE” (31st of 34) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (8th of 59) band of By complexity.

Dark Willow is soft support (4) first of all, with hard support at 0.40 as the fallback. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0 · mid 0.02 · offlane 0 · soft support 1 · hard support 0.40 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Dark Willow in the “4 · SUPPORT” row and nowhere else.

Lanes over 2,550 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 28%, mid 5%, off 67%. Median GPM 335, XPM 546 — pure support gold on the site's scale (360 or less).

The positions layout is ready-made: Classic: positions 1–5 puts Dark Willow in “4 · SUPPORT” (12th of 18).

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Dark Willow: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 28th of 44.

For a main, the handiest layout is Mains + situational: the button above puts Dark Willow first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Skywrath Mage, Rubick and Grimstroke: all three share the same main position (soft support), the same attribute and ranged 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.

Dark Willow has 271,070 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026, Herald to Divine — 62nd of 127 by games played — and a 49.1% win rate, 80th of 127.

The higher the rank, the better: 47.6% at Herald–Crusader, 50.2% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Dark Willow more than usual at Divine (+37%) and less at Crusader (−11%).

Dark Willow in the snapshot's pro matches: 39 picks, 20 wins, 21 bans. Turbo: 115,976 games at 47.2%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin covers arcanas and personas only, and Dark Willow 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 soft support, the closest to Dark Willow are Skywrath Mage, Rubick and Mirana — their dot drawings are ready for a soft support grid.