Medusa — hero grid for mains

Medusa is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Медуза” (or “дуза”). Short names for Medusa you will see in chat: “dusa”.

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Immobilizes her enemies with her stone gaze”.

The site's “Choose a hero” window finds Medusa by any of “Medusa”, “Медуза” and “dusa”.

A ranged Agility hero — one of 35 — Medusa gets 1 of 3 on Valve's complexity scale, one of the 55 easiest heroes.

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

In the ready layouts that means the “AGILITY” (29th of 35) block of By attributes and the “EASY” (28th of 55) band of By complexity. Medusa is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “1 · CARRY”, 10th of 12.

One position only for Medusa: carry (1), with the next best score at just 0.16. All five scores (best = 1): carry 1 · mid 0.16 · offlane 0.06 · soft support 0 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Medusa in the “1 · CARRY” row and nowhere else.

Lanes over 429 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 83%, mid 11%, off 6%. Median GPM 622, XPM 832 — core-level gold on the site's scale (540 and up).

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

Medusa 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 Medusa” button opens Mains + situational with Medusa first in the MAINS block, followed by Troll Warlord, Morphling and Lone Druid — all three share the same main position (carry), the same attribute and ranged 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).

Medusa has 126,287 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026, Herald to Divine — 108th of 127 by games played — and a 49.3% win rate, 76th of 127.

Rank barely changes the picture: 49.9% at Herald–Crusader and 48.5% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Medusa more than usual at Herald (+16%) and less at Divine (−34%).

Medusa in the snapshot's pro matches: 3 picks, 3 wins, 0 bans. Turbo: 82,744 games at 54.4%, noticeably better than in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin covers arcanas and personas only, and Medusa has none there yet; to draw the hero anyway, upload any art to Picture to dots. Among the heroes with skins that are also played as carry, the closest to Medusa are Drow Ranger, Shadow Fiend and Faceless Void — their dot drawings are ready for a carry grid.