Huskar — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Huskar — the same in the English and the Russian client. The site's dictionary has no English nickname for Huskar — people just type the name. Russian-speaking players say “Хускар” (or “хуск” and “хускарь”).

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Sacrifices his health to deal more damage”.

In the editor's hero picker, typing “Huskar” or “Хускар” brings up Huskar.

Huskar is a Strength hero (36 of them in the game), ranged, complexity 1 of 3 by Valve's rating, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

Valve's roles for Huskar, rated 1 to 3: Carry ●●○, Durable ●●○, Initiator ●○○; none reaches the full three dots.

By attributes puts Huskar in the “STRENGTH” (14th of 36) block; By complexity — in the “EASY” (18th of 55) band. Huskar is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “2 · MID”, 9th of 9.

No doubt about the role: Huskar is mid (2), and the best of the other positions scores 0.22. The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0.13 · mid 1 · offlane 0.16 · soft support 0.22 · hard support 0.02, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “2 · MID” row only.

Median gold per minute for Huskar is 456, experience 646 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.35 by the site's formula; by lane, 488 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026 split 9% safe, 76% mid and 15% off.

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

Other ready grids with Huskar: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); not in Two columns (44 cores and 44 supports).

For a main, the handiest layout is Mains + situational: the button above puts Huskar first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Dragon Knight, Viper and Earth Spirit: 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).

Win rate 45.3% for Huskar (118th of 127) over 163,070 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 98th.

The win rate is flat across brackets — 45.3% low, 46.1% high. Huskar's share of games is 123% above its average at Herald and 23% below at Ancient.

Huskar in the snapshot's pro matches: 1 pick, 0 wins, 4 bans. Turbo: 144,213 games at 46.8%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

For a grid with a Huskar portrait, bring your own art: Picture to dots draws it in dots right on the field. Among the heroes with skins that are also played as mid, the closest to Huskar are Dragon Knight, Queen of Pain and Lina — their dot drawings are ready for a mid grid.