Mars — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Mars — the same in the English and the Russian client. There is no common English short name for Mars in the site's dictionary. Russian-speaking players say “Марс”.

Valve sums the hero up in one line: “Traps his foes in an inescapable arena”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Mars by either “Mars” or “Марс”.

A melee Strength hero — one of 36 — Mars gets 1 of 3 on Valve's complexity scale, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

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

In the ready layouts that means the “STRENGTH” (33rd of 36) block of By attributes and the “EASY” (27th of 55) band of By complexity. Beginner: easy heroes leaves Mars out: it keeps easy heroes only on their main position and only the ones that do best at low ranks.

Mars is offlane (3) first of all, with soft support at 0.31 as the fallback. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0.01 · mid 0.10 · offlane 1 · soft support 0.31 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Mars in the “3 · OFFLANE” row and nowhere else.

Where the scores come from: in 1,027 parsed OpenDota matches (data as of 23 Sept 2026) Mars went safe lane 1% of the time, mid 9% and offlane 90%. Median gold per minute is 476 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.27 by the site's formula; experience per minute is 678.

For a layout by role, take Classic: positions 1–5: Mars is already there, 14th of 18 in “3 · OFFLANE”.

Other ready grids with Mars: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); Two columns — “CORES”, 44th of 44.

The “Make a grid with Mars” button opens Mains + situational with Mars first in the MAINS block, followed by Axe, Legion Commander and Tidehunter — all three share the same main position (offlane), the same attribute and melee attack.

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 47.7% for Mars (101st of 127) over 194,323 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026; by games played that is 85th.

Low (47.7%) and high (47.7%) brackets differ by less than two points. Players pick Mars more than usual at Divine (+41%) and less at Guardian (−37%).

Mars in the snapshot's pro matches: 1 pick, 0 wins, 0 bans. Turbo: 83,957 games at 48.7%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Mars 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 offlane, the closest to Mars are Legion Commander, Wraith King and Razor — their dot drawings are ready for an offlane grid.