Morphling — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Morphling — the same in the English and the Russian client. In chat Morphling also goes by “morph”. Russian-speaking players say “Морфлинг” (or “морф”).

The hero's line in Valve's list reads: “Rides the waves to flank enemies”.

In the editor's hero picker, typing “Morphling” or “Морфлинг” or “morph” brings up Morphling.

Morphling: Agility attribute, shared with 34 other heroes; ranged attack; Valve rates the complexity hard, 3 of 3, one of only 13 heroes at the top level.

Valve's roles for Morphling, rated 1 to 3: Carry ●●●, Escape ●●●, Durable ●●○, Nuker ●○○, Disabler ●○○ — maxed out: Carry and Escape.

By attributes puts Morphling in the “AGILITY” (6th of 35) block; By complexity — in the “HARD” (10th of 13) band.

One position only for Morphling: carry (1), with the next best score at just 0.13. The site's position scores (best = 1) are carry 1 · mid 0.13 · offlane 0.02 · soft support 0 · hard support 0, so Pick by stats puts the hero into the “1 · CARRY” row only.

Median gold per minute for Morphling is 591, experience 803 — core-level gold on the site's scale (540 and up); by lane, 544 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026 split 89% safe, 9% mid and 2% off.

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

Quickly, the rest of the practical templates for Morphling: not in Meta by stats (ten heroes per position); not in Two columns (44 cores and 44 supports).

For a main, the handiest layout is Mains + situational: the button above puts Morphling first in MAINS with the biggest portraits, next to Medusa, Gyrocopter and Troll Warlord: 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).

In the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026 Morphling shows up in 176,836 games (92nd most played of 127) and wins 47.9% of them (95th).

The win rate is flat across brackets — 47.4% low, 48.2% high. Morphling's share of games is 21% above its average at Divine and 12% below at Guardian.

Morphling in the snapshot's pro matches: 2 picks, 1 win, 1 ban. Turbo: 110,087 games at 49.7%, about the same as in ranked brackets.

No ready dot drawing of Morphling 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 Morphling are Shadow Fiend, Drow Ranger and Faceless Void — their dot drawings are ready for a carry grid.