Gyrocopter — hero grid for mains

Gyrocopter is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Гирокоптер” (or “гиро” and “гирик”). In chat Gyrocopter also goes by “gyro”.

Valve's one-line description from the hero list: “Barrages with his cannon and homing missiles”.

In the editor's hero picker, typing “Gyrocopter” or “Гирокоптер” or “gyro” brings up Gyrocopter.

Gyrocopter 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 Gyrocopter, rated 1 to 3: Carry ●●●, Nuker ●○○, Disabler ●○○ — maxed out: Carry.

By attributes puts Gyrocopter in the “AGILITY” (24th of 35) block; By complexity — in the “EASY” (17th of 55) band. Beginner: easy heroes leaves Gyrocopter out: it keeps easy heroes only on their main position and only the ones that do best at low ranks.

No doubt about the role: Gyrocopter is carry (1), and the best of the other positions scores 0.23. The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 1 · mid 0.13 · offlane 0.18 · soft support 0.17 · hard support 0.23, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “1 · CARRY” row only.

Lanes over 465 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 68%, mid 9%, off 22%. Median GPM 449, XPM 643 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.38 by the site's formula.

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

Gyrocopter in other layouts: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); not in Two columns (44 cores and 44 supports).

With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Gyrocopter, then Shadow Fiend, Morphling and Medusa, because all three share the same main position (carry), the same attribute and ranged attack.

The file goes into your Steam folder, 570 → remote → cfg of your account, with Dota closed — step by step in the install guide.

Gyrocopter has 124,338 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026, Herald to Divine — 109th of 127 by games played — and a 45.6% win rate, 117th of 127.

The win rate is flat across brackets — 44.6% low, 46.2% high. Gyrocopter's share of games is 10% above its average at Ancient and 10% below at Guardian.

Pros ban Gyrocopter more often than they pick the hero: 5 bans against 3 picks (1 win) in the snapshot. Turbo: 82,495 games at 45.5%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin covers arcanas and personas only, and Gyrocopter 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 carry, the closest to Gyrocopter are Shadow Fiend, Drow Ranger and Anti-Mage — their dot drawings are ready for a carry grid.