Lone Druid — hero grid for mains

Lone Druid is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Лон Друид” (or “друид” and “медведь”). Short names for Lone Druid you will see in chat: “ld”.

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Commands a powerful spirit bear in battle”.

In the editor's hero picker, typing “Lone Druid” or “Лон Друид” or “ld” brings up Lone Druid.

Lone Druid is an Agility hero (35 of them in the game), ranged, complexity 3 of 3 by Valve's rating, one of only 13 heroes at the top level.

Role dots from Valve: Pusher ●●●, Carry ●●○, Durable ●○○; full marks for Pusher.

In the ready layouts that means the “AGILITY” (25th of 35) block of By attributes and the “HARD” (8th of 13) band of By complexity.

One position only for Lone Druid: carry (1), with the next best score at just 0.18. All five scores (best = 1): carry 1 · mid 0.18 · offlane 0.05 · soft support 0 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Lone Druid in the “1 · CARRY” row and nowhere else.

Median gold per minute for Lone Druid is 626, experience 636 — core-level gold on the site's scale (540 and up); by lane, 839 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026 split 81% safe, 14% mid and 5% off.

Lone Druid is not in Classic: positions 1–5, which holds the 18 most popular heroes per position, but each row fits 20 portraits — add Lone Druid to the “1 · CARRY” row with “+ Hero” and the portraits keep their size.

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

The “Make a grid with Lone Druid” button opens Mains + situational with Lone Druid first in the MAINS block, followed by Troll Warlord, Medusa and Drow Ranger — all three share the same main position (carry), 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.

Lone Druid has 148,544 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026, Herald to Divine — 101st of 127 by games played — and a 48.4% win rate, 91st of 127.

The win rate is flat across brackets — 48.7% low, 48.3% high. Players pick Lone Druid more than usual at Divine (+7%) and less at Herald (−9%).

Pros ban Lone Druid more often than they pick the hero: 50 bans against 16 picks (11 wins) in the snapshot. Turbo: 67,128 games at 45.0%, worse than in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Lone Druid yet, but any art or screenshot of the hero turns into dots in Picture to dots. Among the heroes with skins that are also played as carry, the closest to Lone Druid are Drow Ranger, Shadow Fiend and Juggernaut — their dot drawings are ready for a carry grid.