Dragon Knight — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Dragon Knight — the same in the English and the Russian client. Short names for Dragon Knight you will see in chat: “dk”. Russian-speaking players say “Драгон Найт” (or “дк” and “драгон”).

Valve's one-line description from the hero list: “Transforms into a formidable ranged dragon”.

Search in the hero picker is forgiving: “Dragon Knight”, “Драгон Найт”, “dk” — each of them lands on Dragon Knight.

Dragon Knight: Strength attribute, shared with 35 other heroes; melee attack; Valve rates the complexity easy, 1 of 3, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

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

In the ready layouts that means the “STRENGTH” (10th of 36) block of By attributes and the “EASY” (15th of 55) band of By complexity. Dragon Knight is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “2 · MID”, 3rd of 9.

Dragon Knight is mid (2) first of all, with offlane at 0.42 as the fallback. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0.11 · mid 1 · offlane 0.42 · soft support 0 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Dragon Knight in the “2 · MID” row and nowhere else.

Median gold per minute for Dragon Knight is 542, experience 746 — core-level gold on the site's scale (540 and up); by lane, 1,597 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026 split 8% safe, 61% mid and 30% off.

For a layout by role, take Classic: positions 1–5: Dragon Knight is already there, 10th of 18 in “2 · MID”.

Other ready grids with Dragon Knight: Meta by stats — “MID”, 4th of 10; Two columns — “CORES”, 26th of 44.

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

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.

In the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026 Dragon Knight shows up in 329,464 games (51st most played of 127) and wins 52.1% of them (18th).

Rank barely changes the picture: 51.9% at Herald–Crusader and 52.4% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Dragon Knight more than usual at Divine (+35%) and less at Herald (−20%).

Pros ban Dragon Knight more often than they pick the hero: 19 bans against 11 picks (7 wins) in the snapshot. Turbo: 102,774 games at 52.8%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin has the Davion of Dragon Hold persona for Dragon Knight: 8 ready dot drawings, from 1,359 to 3,762 of the grid's 4000 slots.

Ready grid with this drawing: Dragon Knight · Davion of Dragon Hold — 919 drawing symbols and all 127 heroes.