Enigma — hero grid for mains

Every Dota client, Russian included, shows the name Enigma. There is no common English short name for Enigma in the site's dictionary. On Russian servers you will hear “Энигма” (or “энига”).

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Traps and damages enemies in a black hole”.

In the editor's hero picker, typing “Enigma” or “Энигма” brings up Enigma.

Enigma: Universal attribute, shared with 21 other heroes; ranged attack; Valve rates the complexity medium, 2 of 3.

Role dots from Valve: Disabler ●●○, Pusher ●●○, Initiator ●●○ — no role at the full three.

In the ready layouts that means the “UNIVERSAL” (4th of 22) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (15th of 59) band of By complexity.

Enigma is soft support (4) first of all, with offlane at 0.38 as the fallback. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0.01 · mid 0.08 · offlane 0.38 · soft support 1 · hard support 0.13 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Enigma in the “4 · SUPPORT” row and nowhere else.

Where the scores come from: in 747 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Enigma went safe lane 8% of the time, mid 10% and offlane 82%. Median gold per minute is 403 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.70 by the site's formula; experience per minute is 556.

The positions layout is ready-made: Classic: positions 1–5 puts Enigma in “4 · SUPPORT” (18th of 18).

Other ready grids with Enigma: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 30th of 44.

For a main, the handiest layout is Mains + situational: the button above puts Enigma first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Batrider, Venomancer and Nyx Assassin: all three share the same main position (soft support) 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.

In the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026 Enigma shows up in 166,111 games (96th most played of 127) and wins 50.9% of them (41st).

The higher the rank, the better: 49.0% at Herald–Crusader, 53.6% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Enigma more than usual at Divine (+24%) and less at Legend (−8%).

Pros ban Enigma more often than they pick the hero: 48 bans against 12 picks (5 wins) in the snapshot. Turbo: 131,686 games at 49.5%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Enigma yet, but any art or screenshot of the hero turns into dots in Picture to dots. Among the heroes with skins that are also played as soft support, the closest to Enigma are Techies, Windranger and Rubick — their dot drawings are ready for a soft support grid.