Earth Spirit — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Earth Spirit — the same in the English and the Russian client. The site's dictionary has no English nickname for Earth Spirit — people just type the name. Russian-speaking players say “Эрт Спирит” (or “эрт”, “эртспирит” and “эрс спирит”).

Valve's one-line description from the hero list: “Disables and repositions his enemies”.

Search in the hero picker is forgiving: “Earth Spirit”, “Эрт Спирит” — each of them lands on Earth Spirit.

Earth Spirit: Strength attribute, shared with 35 other heroes; melee attack; Valve rates the complexity hard, 3 of 3, one of only 13 heroes at the top level.

Valve's roles for Earth Spirit, rated 1 to 3: Nuker ●●○, Escape ●●○, Disabler ●○○, Durable ●○○, Initiator ●○○; none reaches the full three dots.

By attributes puts Earth Spirit in the “STRENGTH” (30th of 36) block; By complexity — in the “HARD” (4th of 13) band.

Two positions for Earth Spirit: mid (2) first, soft support (4) second, both with a score of 0.5 or more (1 and 0.64). The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0.03 · mid 1 · offlane 0.25 · soft support 0.64 · hard support 0.07, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “2 · MID” and “4 · SUPPORT” rows only.

Lanes over 1,658 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 4%, mid 68%, off 28%. Median GPM 433, XPM 643 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.57 by the site's formula.

The rows of Classic: positions 1–5 hold the 18 most played heroes each and Earth Spirit is not among them; there are two free slots per row, so drop the hero into “2 · MID” yourself.

Other ready grids with Earth Spirit: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 35th of 44.

With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Earth Spirit, then Dragon Knight, Huskar and Sand King, because all three share the same main position (mid).

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).

Earth Spirit has 222,163 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026, Herald to Divine — 75th of 127 by games played — and a 49.3% win rate, 77th of 127.

Results climb with rank, from 47.4% at Herald–Crusader to 50.6% at Ancient–Divine. Earth Spirit's share of games is 58% above its average at Divine and 44% below at Herald.

Pros ban Earth Spirit more often than they pick the hero: 59 bans against 15 picks (12 wins) in the snapshot. Turbo: 99,102 games at 45.0%, worse than in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin covers arcanas and personas only, and Earth Spirit 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 Earth Spirit are Dragon Knight, Zeus and Earthshaker — their dot drawings are ready for a mid grid.