Lina — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Lina — the same in the English and the Russian client. The site's dictionary has no English nickname for Lina — people just type the name. Russian-speaking players say “Лина”.

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Increases attack and speed with every spell”.

Search in the hero picker is forgiving: “Lina”, “Лина” — each of them lands on Lina.

Lina is an Intelligence hero (34 of them in the game), ranged, complexity 1 of 3 by Valve's rating, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

Valve's roles for Lina, rated 1 to 3: Nuker ●●●, Carry ●○○, Support ●○○, Disabler ●○○ — maxed out: Nuker.

By attributes puts Lina in the “INTELLIGENCE” (5th of 34) block; By complexity — in the “EASY” (24th of 55) band. Lina is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “2 · MID”, 6th of 9.

Lina is a one-position hero — mid (2); no other score goes above 0.14. The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0.14 · mid 1 · offlane 0.03 · soft support 0.04 · hard support 0, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “2 · MID” row only.

Where the scores come from: in 3,132 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Lina went safe lane 13% of the time, mid 83% and offlane 4%. Median gold per minute is 559 — core-level gold on the site's scale (540 and up); experience per minute is 803.

In Classic: positions 1–5 Lina sits in the “2 · MID” row, 3rd portrait of 18.

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Lina: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “CORES”, 18th of 44.

With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Lina, then Leshrac, Storm Spirit and Invoker, because all three share the same main position (mid), the same attribute and ranged attack.

To get the grid into the game, press “Download grid” and, with Dota closed, put hero_grid_config.json into Steam → userdata → account number → 570 → remote → cfg — details in how to install a hero grid.

In the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026 Lina shows up in 805,178 games (6th most played of 127) and wins 47.2% of them (108th).

Rank barely changes the picture: 46.7% at Herald–Crusader and 47.4% at Ancient–Divine. Lina's share of games is 7% above its average at Herald and 4% below at Divine.

Pros ban Lina more often than they pick the hero: 29 bans against 13 picks (7 wins) in the snapshot. Turbo: 394,476 games at 46.2%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin has the Fiery Soul of the Slayer arcana for Lina: 8 ready dot drawings, from 1,693 to 3,645 of the grid's 4000 slots.

Ready grid with this drawing: Lina · Fiery Soul of the Slayer — 1,110 drawing symbols and all 127 heroes.