Night Stalker — hero grid for mains

The in-game name is Night Stalker — the same in the English and the Russian client. Short names for Night Stalker you will see in chat: “ns”. Russian-speaking players say “Найт Сталкер” (or “сталкер” and “нс”).

Valve's one-line description from the hero list: “Enpowered by the shadows of nightfall”.

In the editor's hero picker, typing “Night Stalker” or “Найт Сталкер” or “ns” brings up Night Stalker.

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

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

In the ready layouts that means the “STRENGTH” (15th of 36) block of By attributes and the “EASY” (31st of 55) band of By complexity. Night Stalker is also in Beginner: easy heroes — column “3 · OFFLANE”, 10th of 12.

Night Stalker is a one-position hero — offlane (3); no other score goes above 0.20. All five scores (best = 1): carry 0.03 · mid 0.08 · offlane 1 · soft support 0.20 · hard support 0 — which is why the editor's Auto-pick places Night Stalker in the “3 · OFFLANE” row and nowhere else.

Lanes over 1,762 parsed OpenDota matches as of 23 Sept 2026: safe 2%, mid 7%, off 91%. Median GPM 497, XPM 711 — between support (360) and core (540), a supportness of 0.18 by the site's formula.

In Classic: positions 1–5 Night Stalker sits in the “3 · OFFLANE” row, 4th portrait of 18.

Night Stalker in other layouts: Meta by stats — “OFFLANE”, 3rd of 10; Two columns — “CORES”, 34th of 44.

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

The file goes into your Steam folder, 570 → remote → cfg of your account, with Dota closed — step by step in the install guide.

Night Stalker has 340,519 games in the OpenDota snapshot of 23 Sept 2026, Herald to Divine — 49th of 127 by games played — and a 52.0% win rate, 20th of 127.

The higher the rank, the better: 49.8% at Herald–Crusader, 53.1% at Ancient–Divine. Players pick Night Stalker more than usual at Divine (+39%) and less at Herald (−44%).

Night Stalker in the snapshot's pro matches: 5 picks, 3 wins, 3 bans. Turbo: 62,867 games at 48.1%, worse than in ranked brackets.

For a grid with a Night Stalker 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 offlane, the closest to Night Stalker are Legion Commander, Wraith King and Razor — their dot drawings are ready for an offlane grid.