Drow Ranger — hero grid for mains

Every Dota client, Russian included, shows the name Drow Ranger. In chat Drow Ranger also goes by “drow”. On Russian servers you will hear “Дроу Рейнджер” (or “дроу” and “дровка”).

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Slows with her frost-tipped arrows”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Drow Ranger by any of “Drow Ranger”, “Дроу Рейнджер” and “drow”.

Drow Ranger is an Agility hero (35 of them in the game), ranged, complexity 1 of 3 by Valve's rating, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

Valve's roles for Drow Ranger, rated 1 to 3: Carry ●●○, Disabler ●○○, Pusher ●○○; none reaches the full three dots.

By attributes puts Drow Ranger in the “AGILITY” (3rd of 35) block; By complexity — in the “EASY” (16th of 55) band. Drow Ranger is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “1 · CARRY”, 9th of 12.

Drow Ranger is a one-position hero — carry (1); no other score goes above 0.10. The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 1 · mid 0.10 · offlane 0.01 · soft support 0 · hard support 0, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “1 · CARRY” row only.

Lanes over 1,544 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 91%, mid 8%, off 1%. Median GPM 563, XPM 753 — core-level gold on the site's scale (540 and up).

In Classic: positions 1–5 Drow Ranger sits in the “1 · CARRY” row, 9th portrait of 18.

Drow Ranger in other layouts: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “CORES”, 9th of 44.

For a main, the handiest layout is Mains + situational: the button above puts Drow Ranger first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Troll Warlord, Luna and Medusa: all three share the same main position (carry), the same attribute and ranged attack.

Then it is “Download grid” and hero_grid_config.json into Steam\userdata\<number>\570\remote\cfg while Dota is closed; load your current file in the “Your grid is ready” window and your old grids stay (install guide).

In the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026 Drow Ranger shows up in 437,555 games (37th most played of 127) and wins 46.4% of them (113th).

Rank barely changes the picture: 47.1% at Herald–Crusader and 45.5% at Ancient–Divine. Drow Ranger's share of games is 52% above its average at Herald and 36% below at Divine.

Drow Ranger in the snapshot's pro matches: 4 picks, 2 wins, 2 bans. Turbo: 351,485 games at 50.3%, noticeably better than in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin has the Dread Retribution arcana plus a second arcana style for Drow Ranger: 16 ready dot drawings, from 2,106 to 3,787 of the grid's 4000 slots.

Ready grid with this drawing: Drow Ranger · Dread Retribution — 1,866 drawing symbols and all 127 heroes.