Dawnbreaker — hero grid for mains

Dawnbreaker is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Даунбрейкер” (or “даун”, “давнбрейкер” and “дб”). In chat Dawnbreaker also goes by “db”.

Valve's one-line description from the hero list: “Leaps to aid her allies, wherever they are on the map”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Dawnbreaker by any of “Dawnbreaker”, “Даунбрейкер” and “db”.

Dawnbreaker 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 Dawnbreaker, rated 1 to 3: Durable ●●○, Carry ●○○; none reaches the full three dots.

By attributes puts Dawnbreaker in the “STRENGTH” (34th of 36) block; By complexity — in the “EASY” (12th of 55) band. Dawnbreaker is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “3 · OFFLANE”, 4th of 12.

One position only for Dawnbreaker: offlane (3), with the next best score at just 0.10. The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0.04 · mid 0.09 · offlane 1 · soft support 0.10 · hard support 0, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “3 · OFFLANE” row only.

Where the scores come from: in 2,538 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Dawnbreaker went safe lane 3% of the time, mid 6% and offlane 91%. Median gold per minute is 521 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.08 by the site's formula; experience per minute is 723.

In Classic: positions 1–5 Dawnbreaker sits in the “3 · OFFLANE” row, 3rd portrait of 18.

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Dawnbreaker: Meta by stats — “OFFLANE”, 2nd of 10; Two columns — “CORES”, 33rd of 44.

With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Dawnbreaker, then Axe, Bristleback and Mars, because all three share the same main position (offlane), the same attribute 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 Dawnbreaker shows up in 396,006 games (40th most played of 127) and wins 52.2% of them (16th).

Low (52.0%) and high (52.5%) brackets differ by less than two points. Dawnbreaker's share of games is 39% above its average at Divine and 42% below at Herald.

Pros ban Dawnbreaker more often than they pick the hero: 7 bans against 4 picks (1 win) in the snapshot. Turbo: 92,060 games at 50.8%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin covers arcanas and personas only, and Dawnbreaker 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 offlane, the closest to Dawnbreaker are Legion Commander, Wraith King and Razor — their dot drawings are ready for an offlane grid.