Monkey King — hero grid for mains

Monkey King is what the game calls the hero in every client; Russian-speaking players say “Монки Кинг” (or “мк”, “манки” and “манки кинг”). Short names for Monkey King you will see in chat: “mk”.

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Springs from the cover of the tree tops”.

Search in the hero picker is forgiving: “Monkey King”, “Монки Кинг”, “mk” — each of them lands on Monkey King.

Monkey King is an Agility hero (35 of them in the game), melee, complexity 2 of 3 by Valve's rating.

Role dots from Valve: Carry ●●○, Escape ●●○, Disabler ●○○, Initiator ●○○ — no role at the full three.

In the ready layouts that means the “AGILITY” (33rd of 35) block of By attributes and the “MEDIUM” (27th of 59) band of By complexity.

Monkey King is played in two positions — carry (1) and mid (2) — like 38 other heroes with two scores of 0.5 or more; the main one is carry. All five scores (best = 1): carry 1 · mid 0.65 · offlane 0.10 · soft support 0.04 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Monkey King in the “1 · CARRY” and “2 · MID” rows and nowhere else.

Median gold per minute for Monkey King is 514, experience 718 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.11 by the site's formula; by lane, 589 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026 split 57% safe, 35% mid and 8% off.

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

Other ready grids with Monkey King: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); not in Two columns (44 cores and 44 supports).

The “Make a grid with Monkey King” button opens Mains + situational with Monkey King first in the MAINS block, followed by Kez, Riki and Slark — all three share the same main position (carry), the same attribute and melee attack.

Monkey King has 203,140 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026, Herald to Divine — 79th of 127 by games played — and a 45.7% win rate, 116th of 127.

The win rate is flat across brackets — 45.3% low, 46.2% high. Players pick Monkey King more than usual at Herald (+35%) and less at Legend (−5%).

Monkey King in the snapshot's pro matches: 7 picks, 3 wins, 1 ban. Turbo: 166,081 games at 47.4%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

Main in a skin has the Great Sage's Reckoning arcana plus a second arcana style for Monkey King: 16 ready dot drawings, from 1,375 to 3,531 of the grid's 4000 slots.

Ready grid with this drawing: Monkey King · Great Sage's Reckoning — 955 drawing symbols and all 127 heroes.