Keeper of the Light — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Keeper of the Light — the same in the English and the Russian client. Short names for Keeper of the Light you will see in chat: “kotl”. Russian-speaking players say “Кипер оф зе Лайт” (or “кипер” and “котл”).

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Provides instant mana to allies”.

Search in the hero picker is forgiving: “Keeper of the Light”, “Кипер оф зе Лайт”, “kotl” — each of them lands on Keeper of the Light.

Keeper of the Light is an Intelligence hero (34 of them in the game), ranged, complexity 2 of 3 by Valve's rating.

Role dots from Valve: Support ●●●, Nuker ●●○, Disabler ●○○; full marks for Support.

In the ready layouts that means the “INTELLIGENCE” (27th of 34) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (19th of 59) band of By complexity.

Keeper of the Light is played in two positions — mid (2) and soft support (4) — like 38 other heroes with two scores of 0.5 or more; the main one is mid. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0.09 · mid 1 · offlane 0.38 · soft support 0.69 · hard support 0.07 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Keeper of the Light in the “2 · MID” and “4 · SUPPORT” rows and nowhere else.

Where the scores come from: in 1,239 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Keeper of the Light went safe lane 6% of the time, mid 53% and offlane 41%. Median gold per minute is 486 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.48 by the site's formula; experience per minute is 689.

The positions layout is ready-made: Classic: positions 1–5 puts Keeper of the Light in “2 · MID” (17th of 18).

Other ready grids with Keeper of the Light: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 34th of 44.

For a main, the handiest layout is Mains + situational: the button above puts Keeper of the Light first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Zeus, Lina and Leshrac: all three share the same main position (mid), the same attribute and ranged attack.

Win rate 49.0% for Keeper of the Light (84th of 127) over 254,930 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 65th.

The higher the rank, the better: 47.3% at Herald–Crusader, 50.9% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Keeper of the Light more than usual at Herald (+24%) and less at Ancient (−11%).

Pros ban Keeper of the Light more often than they pick the hero: 25 bans against 14 picks (6 wins) in the snapshot. Turbo: 137,390 games at 45.6%, worse than in ranked brackets.

For a grid with a Keeper of the Light 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 Keeper of the Light are Zeus, Lina and Invoker — their dot drawings are ready for a mid grid.