Death Prophet — hero grid for mains

Every Dota client, Russian included, shows the name Death Prophet. Short names for Death Prophet you will see in chat: “dp”. On Russian servers you will hear “Дэз Профет” (or “дп”, “дез профет” and “дэз”).

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Summons an army of ghosts to attack”.

Search in the hero picker is forgiving: “Death Prophet”, “Дэз Профет”, “dp” — each of them lands on Death Prophet.

Death Prophet is a Universal hero (22 of them in the game), ranged, complexity 1 of 3 by Valve's rating, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

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

In the ready layouts that means the “UNIVERSAL” (7th of 22) block of By attributes and the “EASY” (14th of 55) band of By complexity. Death Prophet is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “2 · MID”, 8th of 9.

No doubt about the role: Death Prophet is mid (2), and the best of the other positions scores 0.29. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0.07 · mid 1 · offlane 0.29 · soft support 0.14 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Death Prophet in the “2 · MID” row and nowhere else.

Where the scores come from: in 1,097 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Death Prophet went safe lane 4% of the time, mid 64% and offlane 32%. Median gold per minute is 500 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.17 by the site's formula; experience per minute is 691.

Death Prophet is not in Classic: positions 1–5, which holds the 18 most popular heroes per position, but each row fits 20 portraits — add Death Prophet to the “2 · MID” row with “+ Hero” and the portraits keep their size.

Other ready grids with Death Prophet: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); not in Two columns (44 cores and 44 supports).

For a main, the handiest layout is Mains + situational: the button above puts Death Prophet first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Void Spirit, Pangolier and Invoker: all three share the same main position (mid).

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 Death Prophet shows up in 163,449 games (97th most played of 127) and wins 48.9% of them (85th).

Rank barely changes the picture: 48.4% at Herald–Crusader and 49.8% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Death Prophet more than usual at Herald (+66%) and less at Ancient (−11%).

Death Prophet in the snapshot's pro matches: 5 picks, 3 wins, 0 bans. Turbo: 74,690 games at 48.3%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin covers arcanas and personas only, and Death Prophet 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 mid, the closest to Death Prophet are Invoker, Lina and Queen of Pain — their dot drawings are ready for a mid grid.