Hoodwink — hero grid for mains

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

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Shackles her enemies to trees”.

In the editor's hero picker, typing “Hoodwink” or “Худвинк” brings up Hoodwink.

A ranged Agility hero — one of 35 — Hoodwink gets 2 of 3 on Valve's complexity scale.

Role dots from Valve: Support ●●○, Nuker ●●○, Escape ●●○, Disabler ●○○ — no role at the full three.

In the ready layouts that means the “AGILITY” (34th of 35) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (18th of 59) band of By complexity.

Hoodwink is soft support (4) first of all, with hard support at 0.43 as the fallback. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0 · mid 0.02 · offlane 0 · soft support 1 · hard support 0.43 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Hoodwink in the “4 · SUPPORT” row and nowhere else.

Where the scores come from: in 3,619 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Hoodwink went safe lane 29% of the time, mid 4% and offlane 67%. Median gold per minute is 359 — pure support gold on the site's scale (360 or less); experience per minute is 571.

For a layout by role, take Classic: positions 1–5: Hoodwink is already there, 4th of 18 in “4 · SUPPORT”.

Other ready grids with Hoodwink: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 24th of 44.

For a main, the handiest layout is Mains + situational: the button above puts Hoodwink first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Mirana, Bounty Hunter and Dark Willow: all three share the same main position (soft support).

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

Win rate 47.0% for Hoodwink (109th of 127) over 518,525 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 28th.

Low (47.0%) and high (47.1%) brackets differ by less than two points. Players pick Hoodwink more than usual at Divine (+16%) and less at Herald (−9%).

Hoodwink in the snapshot's pro matches: 42 picks, 23 wins, 24 bans. Turbo: 194,586 games at 45.2%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin covers arcanas and personas only, and Hoodwink 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 soft support, the closest to Hoodwink are Mirana, Skywrath Mage and Rubick — their dot drawings are ready for a soft support grid.