Ember Spirit — hero grid for mains
Ember Spirit is an Agility hero, melee, played as mid (2), with a 49.5% win rate and 53rd place by games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026. Below — a grid with Ember Spirit in Mains and the hero's places in the site's layouts.
In-game name and nicknames
Ember Spirit is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Эмбер Спирит” (or “эмбер” and “ембер”). Short names for Ember Spirit you will see in chat: “ember”.
Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Rapidly strikes and chains his foes”.
The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Ember Spirit by any of “Ember Spirit”, “Эмбер Спирит” and “ember”.
Attribute, attack and roles
Ember Spirit: Agility attribute, shared with 34 other heroes; melee attack; Valve rates the complexity medium, 2 of 3.
Role dots from Valve: Escape ●●●, Carry ●●○, Nuker ●○○, Disabler ●○○, Initiator ●○○; full marks for Escape.
In the ready layouts that means the “AGILITY” (31st of 35) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (13th of 59) band of By complexity.
Positions and lanes
Ember Spirit is a one-position hero — mid (2); no other score goes above 0.03. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0.03 · mid 1 · offlane 0.01 · soft support 0 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Ember Spirit in the “2 · MID” row and nowhere else.
| Position | Score |
|---|---|
| 1 · Carry | 0.03 |
| 2 · Mid | 1 |
| 3 · Offlane | 0.01 |
| 4 · Soft support | 0 |
| 5 · Hard support | 0 |
Where the scores come from: in 2,420 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Ember Spirit went safe lane 4% of the time, mid 94% and offlane 2%. Median gold per minute is 542 — core-level gold on the site's scale (540 and up); experience per minute is 791.
Where to put the hero in your grid
In Classic: positions 1–5 Ember Spirit sits in the “2 · MID” row, 6th portrait of 18.
Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Ember Spirit: Meta by stats — “MID”, 9th of 10; Two columns — “CORES”, 22nd of 44.
With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Ember Spirit, then Broodmother, Viper and Sniper, because all three share the same main position (mid) and the same attribute.
The file goes into your Steam folder, 570 → remote → cfg of your account, with Dota closed — step by step in the install guide.
OpenDota stats, 23 Sept 2026
Win rate 49.5% for Ember Spirit (68th of 127) over 325,779 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 53rd.
The higher the rank, the better: 47.9% at Herald–Crusader, 50.2% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Ember Spirit more than usual at Divine (+59%) and less at Herald (−42%).
| Rank | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|
| Herald | 5,125 | 46.9% |
| Guardian | 18,545 | 47.2% |
| Crusader | 38,249 | 48.4% |
| Archon | 63,278 | 49.4% |
| Legend | 81,046 | 49.8% |
| Ancient | 63,234 | 50.1% |
| Divine | 56,302 | 50.4% |
Ember Spirit in the snapshot's pro matches: 34 picks, 23 wins, 44 bans. Turbo: 114,722 games at 46.0%, worse than in ranked brackets.
Drawing the hero in your grid
Main in a skin covers arcanas and personas only, and Ember 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 Ember Spirit are Dragon Knight, Invoker and Queen of Pain — their dot drawings are ready for a mid grid.
Questions and answers
Can I make Ember Spirit big in my grid?
Yes: the MAINS block in Mains + situational has the biggest portraits, and “Make a grid with Ember Spirit” puts the hero there first.
What position is Ember Spirit?
By the site's scores — mid (2); scores are carry 0.03 · mid 1 · offlane 0.01 · soft support 0 · hard support 0, and Pick by stats puts a hero into a row from 0.5.