Marci — hero grid for mains

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

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Dashes around pummeling enemies with rapid attacks”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Marci by either “Marci” or “Марси”.

A melee Universal hero — one of 22 — Marci gets 2 of 3 on Valve's complexity scale.

Valve's roles for Marci, rated 1 to 3: Initiator ●●○, Carry ●○○, Support ●○○, Disabler ●○○, Escape ●○○; none reaches the full three dots.

By attributes puts Marci in the “UNIVERSAL” (22nd of 22) block; By complexity — in the “MEDIUM” (25th of 59) band.

Marci is one of the rare flex heroes, scoring 0.5 or more in four positions (soft support (4), mid (2), hard support (5) and offlane (3)), highest as soft support; only 8 heroes have more than two. The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 0.37 · mid 0.95 · offlane 0.56 · soft support 1 · hard support 0.67, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “4 · SUPPORT”, “2 · MID”, “5 · HARD SUPPORT” and “3 · OFFLANE” rows only.

Median gold per minute for Marci is 438, experience 636 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.55 by the site's formula; by lane, 650 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026 split 27% safe, 38% mid and 35% off.

The rows of Classic: positions 1–5 hold the 18 most played heroes each and Marci is not among them; there are two free slots per row, so drop the hero into “4 · SUPPORT” yourself.

Marci in other layouts: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “SUPPORTS”, 42nd of 44.

With the button at the top, the MAINS block of Mains + situational starts with Marci, then Magnus, Windranger and Snapfire, because all three share the same main position (soft support) and the same attribute.

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).

In the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026 Marci shows up in 168,162 games (94th most played of 127) and wins 49.9% of them (59th).

Results climb with rank, from 48.7% at Herald–Crusader to 51.0% at Ancient–Divine. Marci's share of games is 39% above its average at Herald and 9% below at Legend.

Marci in the snapshot's pro matches: 1 pick, 0 wins, 1 ban. Turbo: 102,754 games at 46.7%, worse than in ranked brackets.

For a grid with a Marci 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 soft support, the closest to Marci are Windranger, Techies and Earthshaker — their dot drawings are ready for a soft support grid.